Trebor Softmints: version 2
Saved 2026-09-25 08:09 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled the 2026-09-25 flag: the Peppermint Variants row now cites the new References row bestway-peppermint (Bestway Wholesale product 473746, Retail EAN 50105090, fetched 2026-09-25), drops the stale "No page here yet" note, and carries GB, IE, US like product/00000050105090; the Spearmint row gets the same GB, IE, US markets as its product page (IE from the pack contact block, US from the USDA GDSN record). Added an Identity summary and a Timeline with two Wikipedia-sourced advertising rows (1987 TV adverts, March-April 1988 spring campaign), kind other. No sourced launch date was found, so there is no launched row. Refreshed the wiki-trebor accessed date. Kept off-peppermint as the ingredient-statement source.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Trebor Softmints <!--family-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Trebor Softmints
disambiguation: Trebor's line of chewy centred mints in a crisp candy shell
summary: Trebor's chewy centred mints in a crisp candy coating, sold in the UK in peppermint and spearmint 44.9 g rolls with EAN-8 barcodes 50105090 and 50105083.
brand: brand/trebor
category: category/10000047
<!--/identity-->
## Variants <!--variants-->
| name | gtin | net_content | pack_format | market | source | note |
| ---------------------------------- | -------------- | ----------- | ----------- | ---------- | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Trebor Softmints Spearmint 44.9 g | 00000050105083 | 44.9 g | roll | GB, IE, US | ^bestway | Bestway Wholesale product code 473650, "Retail EAN: 50105083"; the back of the roll prints UK and Irish contact blocks, and USDA FoodData Central carries the barcode as a GDSN record with market US. |
| Trebor Softmints Peppermint 44.9 g | 00000050105090 | 44.9 g | roll | GB, IE, US | ^bestway-peppermint | Bestway Wholesale product code 473746, "Retail EAN: 50105090"; the back of the roll prints UK and Irish contact blocks, and USDA FoodData Central carries the barcode as a GDSN record with market US. |
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## Timeline <!--timeline-->
| date | event | kind | market | source | note |
| ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----- | ------ | ------------ | ---- |
| 1987 | Television adverts for Trebor Softmints and Softfruits used "Mr. Soft", sung by Phillip Pope in imitation of Steve Harley. | other | GB | ^wiki-trebor | |
| 1988-03 | The Softmints spring campaign ran nationally from March to the end of April 1988, with EMI re-releasing "Mr. Soft" on 7 March to coincide. | other | GB | ^wiki-trebor | |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ----------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Softmints | name | en | | |
| SoftMints | search | en | | |
| Trebor Soft Mints | search | en | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------- | ----------- | ---------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | ---------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| off-peppermint | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/0000050105090 | Open Food Facts: Trebor softmints softmints peppermint, 44.9 g | 2026-09-17 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | 0000050105090 | | ODbL | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| pack-back | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/000/005/010/5083/1.jpg | Open Food Facts: back of the Trebor Softmints Spearmint roll, showing the EAN-8 barcode, the e-marked 44.9 g, the vegetarian roundel, the choking warning, the denomination, the ingredient list, the per-100 g panel and the UK and Irish contact blocks | 2026-09-17 | Open Food Facts | pack | 2017-07-04 | 0000050105083 | raw upload 1 | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/0000050105083 |
| bestway | https://www.bestwaywholesale.co.uk/product/473650-1 | Bestway Wholesale: Trebor Softmints Spearmint Mints Roll 44.9g, product code 473650, Retail EAN 50105083 | 2026-09-17 | Bestway Wholesale | retailer | | 473650 | Retail EAN, RSP, Ingredients/Nutrition and Additional Information blocks | | | |
| bestway-peppermint | https://www.bestwaywholesale.co.uk/product/473746-1 | Bestway Wholesale: Trebor Softmints Peppermint 44.9g, product code 473746, Retail EAN 50105090 | 2026-09-25 | Bestway Wholesale | retailer | | 473746 | Retail EAN, RSP, Pack Size and Product blocks | | | |
| wiki-trebor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebor_(confectionery) | Wikipedia: Trebor (confectionery) | 2026-09-25 | Wikipedia | publication | | | History; Products; Cultural references | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Softmints is Trebor's line of chewy centred mints in a crisp candy coating, sold in peppermint and spearmint and described on the pack as "mint flavoured chewy centred sweets in a crisp candy coating".[^pack-back] Wikipedia lists SoftMints among the Trebor range in exactly those two flavours.[^wiki-trebor] The standard article is a 44.9 g roll; the spearmint roll carries the EAN-8 barcode 50105083 and the peppermint roll the next number in the block, 50105090, with the same net content and the same ingredient statement.[^bestway][^bestway-peppermint][^off-peppermint] The line was advertised nationally in 1987 and 1988 with Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's "Mr. Soft", sung in imitation by Phillip Pope, alongside its sister line Softfruits.[^wiki-trebor]
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