Description
Description
These mints have been made in Vichy since 1828, when a local pharmacist
figured out how to extract the minerals from the town’s famous thermal
waters. He mixed the extract with sugar and natural mint flavors, and
produced the tablet. A favorite of the Empress Eugénie, the octagonal
pastilles were immensely popular in the nineteenth century, not only for
their reputed ability to cure heartburn but for their fresh minty
flavor. The vogue for thermal waters has passed, but the candies
remain, a testament of their tastiness.
In the mid-nineteenth century, some doctors advised their
patients that eating eight pastilles de Vichy a day would have the same
benefit as a visit to the thermal waters themselves.
Product of France
Ingredients:
Sugar – glazing agent: magnesium salt of fatty
acids, 0.3% of mineral salts extracts from Vichy waters, natural mint
flavor, glucose syrup
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