When it comes to gum and mints, sugar-free gum may have the most sales ($2.6 billion), but breath fresheners and mints actually saw the largest growth (4.34 percent and 4.35 percent respectively).
First, there’s gum. Sugar-free gum is still far out-selling gums with sugar, but the sugar-free gum category actually saw a slight decrease in sales over all since last year. And gum sales overall were down a bit as well.