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Mint Mentos - 37 g
Mint Mentos - 37 g
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Barcode: 0073390000110 (EAN / EAN-13) 073390000110 (UPC / UPC-A)
Quantity: 37 g
Packaging: Mixed plastic-wrapper
Brands: Mentos
Categories: Snacks, Sweet snacks, Confectioneries, Candies
Labels, certifications, awards: Natural flavors
Manufacturing or processing places: The Netherlands
Stores: Officeworks, Coles, Walmart
Countries where sold: Australia, Singapore, Switzerland
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Ingredients
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13 ingredients
Sugars (sugar, wheat syrup, maltodextrin), Coconut oil, Corn starch, Natural flavour, Cocoa butter, Sucrose esters of fatty acids, Gellan gum, Carnauba wax, Cellulose gum, Gum arabicAllergens: Gluten
Food processing
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Ultra processed foods
Elements that indicate the product is in the 4 - Ultra processed food and drink products group:
- Additive: E414 - Acacia gum
- Additive: E418 - Gellan gum
- Additive: E466 - Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose
- Additive: E473 - Sucrose esters of fatty acids
- Additive: E903 - Carnauba wax
- Ingredient: Flavouring
Food products are classified into 4 groups according to their degree of processing:
- Unprocessed or minimally processed foods
- Processed culinary ingredients
- Processed foods
- Ultra processed foods
The determination of the group is based on the category of the product and on the ingredients it contains.
Additives
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E414 - Acacia gum
Gum arabic: Gum arabic, also known as acacia gum, arabic gum, gum acacia, acacia, Senegal gum and Indian gum, and by other names, is a natural gum consisting of the hardened sap of various species of the acacia tree. Originally, gum arabic was collected from Acacia nilotica which was called the "gum arabic tree"; in the present day, gum arabic is collected from acacia species, predominantly Acacia senegal and Vachellia -Acacia- seyal; the term "gum arabic" does not indicate a particular botanical source. In a few cases so‐called "gum arabic" may not even have been collected from Acacia species, but may originate from Combretum, Albizia or some other genus. Producers harvest the gum commercially from wild trees, mostly in Sudan -80%- and throughout the Sahel, from Senegal to Somalia—though it is historically cultivated in Arabia and West Asia. Gum arabic is a complex mixture of glycoproteins and polysaccharides. It is the original source of the sugars arabinose and ribose, both of which were first discovered and isolated from it, and are named after it. Gum arabic is soluble in water. It is edible, and used primarily in the food industry as a stabilizer, with EU E number E414. Gum arabic is a key ingredient in traditional lithography and is used in printing, paint production, glue, cosmetics and various industrial applications, including viscosity control in inks and in textile industries, though less expensive materials compete with it for many of these roles. While gum arabic is now produced throughout the African Sahel, it is still harvested and used in the Middle East.Source: Wikipedia
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E418 - Gellan gum
Gellan gum: Gellan gum is a water-soluble anionic polysaccharide produced by the bacterium Sphingomonas elodea -formerly Pseudomonas elodea based on the taxonomic classification at the time of its discovery-. Its taxonomic classification has been subsequently changed to Sphingomonas elodea based on current classification system. The gellan-producing bacterium was discovered and isolated by the former Kelco Division of Merck & Company, Inc. in 1978 from the lily plant tissue from a natural pond in Pennsylvania, USA. It was initially identified as a substitute gelling agent at significantly lower use level to replace agar in solid culture media for the growth of various microorganisms Its initial commercial product with the trademark as "GELRITE" gellan gum, was subsequently identified as a suitable agar substitute as gelling agent in various clinical bacteriological media.Source: Wikipedia
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E466 - Sodium carboxy methyl cellulose
Carboxymethyl cellulose: Carboxymethyl cellulose -CMC- or cellulose gum or tylose powder is a cellulose derivative with carboxymethyl groups --CH2-COOH- bound to some of the hydroxyl groups of the glucopyranose monomers that make up the cellulose backbone. It is often used as its sodium salt, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose.Source: Wikipedia
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E903 - Carnauba wax
Carnauba wax: Carnauba -; Portuguese: carnaúba [kaʁnɐˈubɐ]-, also called Brazil wax and palm wax, is a wax of the leaves of the palm Copernicia prunifera -Synonym: Copernicia cerifera-, a plant native to and grown only in the northeastern Brazilian states of Piauí, Ceará, Maranhão, Bahia, and Rio Grande do Norte. It is known as "queen of waxes" and in its pure state, usually comes in the form of hard yellow-brown flakes. It is obtained from the leaves of the carnauba palm by collecting and drying them, beating them to loosen the wax, then refining and bleaching the wax.Source: Wikipedia
Ingredients analysis
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Palm oil free
No ingredients containing palm oil detected
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Vegan status unknown
Unrecognized ingredients: Wheat syrup
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Vegetarian status unknown
Unrecognized ingredients: Wheat syrup
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Details of the analysis of the ingredients
Sugars (sugar, wheat syrup, maltodextrin), Coconut oil, Corn starch, Natural flavour, Cocoa butter, Sucrose esters of fatty acids, Gellan gum, Carnauba wax, Cellulose gum, Gum arabic- Sugars -> en:sugar - vegan: yes - vegetarian: yes - percent_min: 10 - percent_max: 100
- sugar -> en:sugar - vegan: yes - vegetarian: yes - percent_min: 3.33333333333333 - percent_max: 100
- wheat syrup -> en:wheat-syrup - percent_min: 0 - percent_max: 50
- maltodextrin -> en:maltodextrind - vegan: yes - vegetarian: yes - percent_min: 0 - percent_max: 33.3333333333333
- Coconut oil -> en:coconut-oil - vegan: yes - vegetarian: yes - from_palm_oil: no - percent_min: 0 - percent_max: 50
- Corn starch -> en:corn-starch - vegan: yes - vegetarian: yes - percent_min: 0 - percent_max: 33.3333333333333
- Natural flavour -> en:natural-flavouring - vegan: maybe - vegetarian: maybe - percent_min: 0 - percent_max: 5
- Cocoa butter -> en:cocoa-butter - vegan: yes - vegetarian: yes - percent_min: 0 - percent_max: 5
- Sucrose esters of fatty acids -> en:e473 - vegan: maybe - vegetarian: maybe - percent_min: 0 - percent_max: 5
- Gellan gum -> en:e418 - vegan: yes - vegetarian: yes - percent_min: 0 - percent_max: 5
- Carnauba wax -> en:e903 - vegan: yes - vegetarian: yes - percent_min: 0 - percent_max: 5
- Cellulose gum -> en:e466 - vegan: yes - vegetarian: yes - percent_min: 0 - percent_max: 5
- Gum arabic -> en:e414 - vegan: yes - vegetarian: yes - percent_min: 0 - percent_max: 5
- Sugars -> en:sugar - vegan: yes - vegetarian: yes - percent_min: 10 - percent_max: 100
Nutrition
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Missing data to compute the Nutri-Score
Missing nutrition facts
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Environment
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Eco-Score C - Moderate environmental impact
⚠️ The full impact of transportation to your country is currently unknown.The Eco-Score is an experimental score that summarizes the environmental impacts of food products.→ The Eco-Score was initially developped for France and it is being extended to other European countries. The Eco-Score formula is subject to change as it is regularly improved to make it more precise and better suited to each country.Life cycle analysis
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Average impact of products of the same category: B (Score: 62/100)
Category: Candies, all types
Category: Candies, all types
- PEF environmental score: 0.41 (the lower the score, the lower the impact)
- including impact on climate change: 1.73 kg CO2 eq/kg of product
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Bonuses and maluses
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Missing origins of ingredients information
Malus:
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Packaging with a medium impact
Malus: -10
Shape Material Recycling instruction Impact Wrapper Plastic High ⚠️ The information about the packaging of this product is not sufficiently precise (exact shapes and materials of all components of the packaging).⚠️ For a more precise calculation of the Eco-Score, you can modify the product page and add them.
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Eco-Score for this product
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Impact for this product: C (Score: 47/100)
Product: Mint Mentos - 37 g
Life cycle analysis score: 62
Sum of bonuses and maluses: -10
Final score: 47/100
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Carbon footprint
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Equal to driving 0.9 km in a petrol car
173 g CO² per 100g of product
The carbon emission figure comes from ADEME's Agribalyse database, for the category: Candies, all types (Source: ADEME Agribalyse Database)
Stage Impact Agriculture
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Packaging
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Packaging with a medium impact
Wrapper (Plastic)
Transportation
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Origins of ingredients
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