Winterfresh is a
wintergreen
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Most ...
flavored variety of
chewing gum
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made by the
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
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Wrigley's is wholly owned by Mars, In ...
. Introduced in the
United States
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in 1994 as an alternative to their
Big Red brand (for the winter season market), it has had two packaging designs .
Extra gum, a sugarless gum, introduced a Winterfresh flavor in 1988,
while
Freedent
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introduced a Winterfresh flavor around the same time the Winterfresh brand gum was introduced.
Each three-
gram
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stick contains 10
calories (42
kilojoule
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s).
Cool Breath Power commercials
From 2006 to 2008, Winterfresh aired a series commercials called "Cool Breath Power", as most of them were "Attraction Chronicles". These commercials were targeted at the teen demographic, and typically featured a narrator giving bizarre love advice in a bizarre world. Its director, illustrator, and animator was Karl Ackermann and
Newgrounds
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...
animator LoveMaestro21, done in an old style of
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by Milky Elephant, with some people believing that the animation is very similar to early seasons of ''
South Park''.
Its creative directors were Bobby Pawar,
Miles Turpin, and
Sean Donohue, who also is the art director of the commercials.
References
External links
Winterfresh - Official websiteWrigley's page on Winterfresh
Wrigley Company brands
Chewing gum
Products introduced in 1994
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