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Discontinued: 2013
America's first commercial breath freshener, Sen-Sen, arrived in the mid-1890s as "breath perfume." Thomas Byrne Dunn, a perfume dealer, created these tiny black squares—each just 1/8-inch—from licorice, anise, gum arabic, maltodextrin, sugar, and imported flavors from Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, and Italy. Warner-Lambert owned the brand before F&F Foods acquired it in 1977. After 123 years of production, F&F Foods ended Sen-Sen in July 2013.
Discontinued: 2016
James Smith bought a cough drop recipe from journeyman peddler Sly Hawkins in 1852. His sons, William and Andrew, took over in 1866, and the company added menthol drops in 1922. By the early 1900s, the Smith Brothers factory produced six tons of cough drops daily. They called them Smith Brothers Menthol. The Smith family sold the company to Warner-Lambert in 1963, then F&F Foods purchased the brand in 1972 and moved production out of Poughkeepsie. Declining sales led to the brand folding in 2016. Lanes Brands acquired and briefly revived Smith Brothers in 2017, but the product struggled to maintain market presence.
Discontinued: 2018
American Chicle developed Certs and introduced their mints to North America in 1956. The name came from the Good Housekeeping certification. Certs contained "Retsyn." A mixture of copper gluconate, partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, and artificial flavoring. The brand offered Classic Mints in disc-shaped rolls, Mini-Mints and Powerful Mints in peppermint, spearmint, and wintergreen, plus Cool Mint Drops. The FDA banned partially hydrogenated oils on June 18, 2018, which ended Certs' production.
Discontinued: 2018
NECCO's white peppermint lozenges appeared in Canada during the late 1880s but didn't reach the United States until the early 1900s. The delay gave them the nickname "Canada Mints." The New England Confectionery Company manufactured these lozenges until the company went bankrupt in 2018. RITO now produces a similar formula. But it's not the same.
Discontinued: 2010
Dark chocolate-dipped mints were launched by Altoids in 2007 with peppermint, cinnamon, and ginger flavors. The company added crème de menthe in 2008. Mars discontinued these mints in 2010 as part of a broader product line reduction.
Discontinued: 2010s
Brach's Ice Blue Mints were individually wrapped translucent blue peppermint hard mints made with real peppermint oil. Released in the mid-20th century, they became "probably the most requested bulk candy of all time." Brach's redesigned them into weaker-flavored "Mint Coolers" before discontinuing the product entirely in the 2010s.
Discontinued: 2009
Tic Tac released cinnamon-flavored breath mints in the 1970s with an intense spicy kick. The original Tic Tac cinnamon formula was discontinued in 2009. The company brought back a limited edition version in 2022 but never made it permanent. And most thought the new iteration was worse than the first.
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