Ice Breaker Mints are made by the Hershey Company.
The ICE BREAKERS Brand became part of The Hershey Company family in 2000, along with BREATH SAVERS Mints, BUBBLE YUM Bubble Gum and others purchased from Nabisco Holdings.
Ice Breakers Wintergreen Mints contains high-carb sugar alcohols like maltitol and sorbitol.
These sweeteners may raise your blood sugar level and prevent you from reaching ketosis.
Ice Breaker Mints can give you gas as well as bloating.
Ice Breakers Mints just like any other mints can also make you poop if you consume enough of them as they can have a laxative effect.
While safe, the sweetener IceBreakers (and many other companies) use can have a laxative effect in higher quantity.
If you eat a lot of these and prior to you were consuming almost no sorbitol (or like) products, you are going to poop.
Eat a whole lot of these, you are going to poop, a lot.
Too many mints can cause bloating and gas as a result of the high sugar content of the mints.
Mints can also sometimes cause a laxative effect as well.
Mints are not actually laxatives but the mints cause a laxative effect because of Sorbitol contained in the mints.
Sorbitol, or glucitol, is a sugar alcohol which our bodies metabolize slowly.
Sorbitol can be found in cough syrups, sugar free mints, chewing gum, diet foods, diet drinks and ice creams.
As a food additive Sorbitol has an E-number E420.
Sorbitol is also used as a non-stimulant laxative.