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> But in North America, they only need to show the per-serving column.

As someone who is from Europe and tracks their calories, I find it appalling and it makes calorie tracking more inconvenient

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Only if you're housing tic tacs by the fistful.

that seems a bit more likely than having just one, all the time

Considering that a fistful is just about an entire package, I'm not so sure.

Tic tacs are supposed to be breath mints, not candy. If you wanted to eat candy why wouldn't you just buy, like, skittles?

If it's meant to be a breath mint, why is it available in flavours other than mint, like Orange, Strawberry & cream and Tropical Adventure?

"breath mint" doesn't have to be mint, it just means small edible candy you put in your mouth to make it smell less like a mouth

If it's 1/2g sugar per Tic Tac and a serving is two Tic Tacs, then we're talking about 4 calories. That's not significant, is it? Just about anything else you eat probably differs from the label by more than 4 cal.

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