Tic-tac shock
Now some people know that I am a tic-tac addict, so one could make the assumption that I know how each tic-tac looks inside. Wrong! As of lately I had simply no idea. It all happened a little while ago. I’ve just bought a pack of extra strong tic-tacs, came home and emptied out some of them onto my hand. And there it was… this one very awkward tic-tac. Unlike all the others it was… brown! Without thinking I threw it into the thrash can. As I was eating the other ones it got me thinking though. How come this one was different from the rest? What if others are brown too? Scary thought,… but I just had to be sure. I broke three others in half. What a shock it was to find out that every one of them was brown inside! My world view has been shattered.
The shocking truth, pictured:
Now you may not believe me and say that this picture is fake and all tic-tacs are actually white inside – that is your right. I advise you, however, to break your own tic-tac in half and see for yourself 
April 13th, 2006 at 11:19 am
Well…. they are. I knew it allready, and as a man-who-knew - You will get over it. ;] Just don’t look inside your tic-tacs.
April 13th, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Look at it another way - brown sugar is said to be healtier than the white one. Probalbly all this white madness is just overrated
April 13th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
Tic-tacs have no sugar! Only two calories! It cannot be brown sugar
April 14th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
But still - brown might mean: health (like with brown suger, healtier than the white one), not everything white is healtly.
Just an analogy.
Nevertheless, I think that I will stick to the orange tic tacs, definitely no strong brown-whites. But the orange one… are they also brown inside? Inside out, outside in, white is orange and orange is brown? :PPP
May 14th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
its all made of hoof anyways
September 13th, 2007 at 3:44 am
I just broke one of the orange ones in half, and it was white on the inside.
Like a twinkey
September 13th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Intriguing, I must brake one of the orange ones myself!
October 6th, 2007 at 6:53 am
the white, orange all the others are white inside but the xtra strong are brown for some reson- maybe the mint!
October 27th, 2007 at 9:24 am
im like a tic tac aholic haha
i have like 4 in my bag…..
omg…now i have to go break all my tic tacs in half….
give me a sec….
ok good news….it was white on the inside….but thats just one of the many tic tacs i have…..damn
tic tacs will never be the same
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oh well….there still good
February 24th, 2008 at 5:47 am
the only reason y extra strong mint tic tacs are brown on the inside is because of the flavouring dont worry you have nothin to worry about and all others are white
April 1st, 2008 at 6:21 am
The horror!
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:46 am
I’ve been addicted to tic tacs for about… A day… Anyway, I always thought they were white inside! That’s so weird… My mom says that colored tic tacs are really bad for your teeth, and yet, she still bought me some as a gift!!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am
omg i was eating tic tacs and i bit one and was shocked and disgusted!! i thought it was marajowana or something!!!! so i typed it in on the web and this site came up. i cant tell you how relieved i am to know its normal!!!
xx
May 25th, 2008 at 5:31 am
Ahah.
I found out that they were black inside a while ago and I nearly flipped because, I too, thought it was marijuana.
Pretty funny thought.
Though yeah, it’s prolly just the “strong” flavoring.
November 13th, 2008 at 7:22 am
This is waht is inside of your orange tic tacs…
Ingredients: Sugar, Maltodextrin, Citric Acid, Tartaric Acid, rice Starch, Artificial Flavor, Gum Arabic, Magnesum Stearate, Carnauba Wax
Sugar
Maltodextrin either can be moderately sweet or have hardly any flavor at all. Maltodextrin is a polysaccharide that is used as a food additive.
Citric Acid: is a weak organic acid, and is triprotic. It is a natural preservative and is also used to add an acidic, or sour, taste to foods and soft drinks. As a food additive, citric acid is used as a flavoring and preservative in food and beverages, especially soft drinks.
Tartaric Acid: is a white crystalline organic acid. It occurs naturally in many plants, particularly grapes, bananas, and tamarinds, and is one of the main acids found in wine. It is added to other foods to give a sour taste, and is used as an antioxidant. Salts of tartaric acid are known as tartrates. It is a dihydroxy derivative of succinic acid.
Rice Starch: thickening agent
Artificial Flavor
Gum arabic is a natural gum also called gum acacia, and chaar gund or char goond (in India), is the hardened sap taken from two species of the acacia tree, Acacia senegal and Acacia seyal. It is used primarily in the food industry as a stabilizer, but has had more varied uses in the past, including viscosity control in inks. Gum Arabic is a complex mixture of saccharides and glycoproteins, which gives it its most useful property: it is perfectly edible. While historically used for printing, paint production, glue, and industrial applications, it continues to be used as an ingredient in foodstuffs.
Magnesium stearate also called octadecanoic acid, magnesium salt, is a white substance which is solid at room temperature. It has the chemical formula C36H70MgO4. It is a salt containing two equivalents of stearate (the anion of stearic acid) and one magnesium cation (Mg2+). Magnesium stearate melts at about 88 °C, is not soluble in water, and is generally considered safe for human consumption. Because it is widely regarded as harmless, it is often used as a filling agent in the manufacture of medical tablets and capsules. It is used to bind sugar in hard candies. Magnesium stearate is a major component of “bathtub rings”. When produced by soap and hard water, magnesium stearate and calcium stearate both form a white solid insoluble in water, and are collectively known as “soap scum”.
Carnauba Wax can produce a glossy finish and as such is used in automobile waxes, shoe polishes, food products such as candy corn, instrument polishes, and floor and furniture polishes, especially when mixed with beeswax. It is used as a coating on dental floss. Use for paper coatings is the most common application in the United States. It is the main ingredient in surfboard wax, combined with coconut oil. In foods, it is used as a formulation aid, lubricant, release agent, anticaking agent, and surface finishing agent in baked foods and mixes, chewing gum, confections, frostings, fresh fruits and juices, gravies, sauces, processed fruits and juices, soft candy, tic tacs and Altoids.
November 13th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
I LOVE the Tic Tac CHILL (in the blue container) I am so addicted to them! I go through like 4 boxes a week…. too bad I now know whats inside…
November 27th, 2008 at 12:03 am
that’s amazing, i always thought they were white all the way through
November 27th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Yeah me too. I’ve been eating tic tacs since I was a kid and this information really shocks me. So is it confirmed that there’s nothing really harmful inside?
November 30th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
This shows us that things are not allways the way as they should be
But nevertehless it should not stop you to enjoy your tic-tac.
December 13th, 2008 at 2:34 am
I agree , as long as it’s not doing us any harm and it doesn’t affect the taste I don’t mind the color difference between the shell and it’s interior.
Think of it as adding some spice in the otherwise pure white color of the Tic-Tac ^^
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:16 pm
How do you break a tic-tac in half?