{"id":5232,"date":"2014-05-29T14:28:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T21:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2024-11-30T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T23:08:01","slug":"for-adults-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/vitamin-ch\/for-adults-only\/","title":{"rendered":"For adults only"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE 2015: Sadly Crest is no longer selling Be.<\/p>\n

Finally, somebody got chocolate toothpaste right, and it\u2019s my old nemesis, Crest.<\/p>\n

Crest\u2019s new line of flavored toothpastes, Be, is so good, you\u2019d better lock your medicine cabinet if you have small children, or else they will be eating it out of the tube.<\/p>\n

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Be Adventurous Mint Chocolate Trek toothpaste<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I grew up on Crest toothpaste and hated the taste. But my parents were convinced it was the best toothpaste out there. Anything that tasted better, like Colgate, simply couldn\u2019t be doing the job right. And don\u2019t get my mother started on Ultra Brite, whose commercials promised you\u2019d be \u201csex-appealing\u201d if you brushed with their paste.<\/p>\n

This ain\u2019t your mother\u2019s toothpaste<\/h2>\n

Those yucky days are gone if you switch to Crest\u2019s new Be line. There are 3 flavors, but I\u2019ve only tried the chocolate one (for obvious reasons).<\/p>\n

It looks like a miniature scoop of mint chocolate chip ice cream on your toothbrush with tiny brown speckles in the light green paste. And it smells and tastes passibly like mint chocolate \u2014 Cacaopod described it as \u201cbrushing your teeth with an Andes mint<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Be here now<\/h2>\n

We figure the flavor is a pretty good strategy to get people to brush their teeth for the dentist-recommended 2 minutes. As you savor the chocolate mint flavor, you might be inspired to do a better job of brushing your teeth. I know I took my time, and my teeth felt smoother after using Be the first time.<\/p>\n

But like I warned before, it\u2019s probably not the best toothpaste for kids. The temptation to eat it instead of just brush with it might be too great. And ingesting fluoride toothpaste is never a good idea<\/a>. Keep this one for the grown-ups.<\/p>\n

Be is better<\/h2>\n

This chocolate toothpaste is altogether a better experience than the other chocolate toothpaste I\u2019ve tried: Theodent<\/a>, which is made from chocolate (theobromide, to be exact) but doesn\u2019t taste like chocolate.<\/p>\n

How Be Adventurous\u2122 is better than Theodent:<\/h3>\n
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  • It tastes like you\u2019d expect\/hope chocolate toothpaste would;<\/li>\n
  • It seems to clean your teeth better (at my checkup after using Theodent for a few months, I had more plaque than usual on my teeth, and my dentist recommended I go back to my old paste); and<\/li>\n
  • It\u2019s half the price.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    And I guess it goes without saying that Be is way better than regular Crest toothpaste. I\u2019ve never bought a tube of Crest since I started buying my own toothpaste. But now I\u2019ve bought 2 tubes of Crest-branded toothpaste: After testing the 1st tube and knowing I would write a rave review, I thought I’d better start stocking up.<\/p>\n

    I found Be Adventurous Mint Chocolate Trek\u2122 toothpaste at my local Walgreens and CVS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Finally, somebody got chocolate toothpaste right, but it\u2019s not suitable for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,50],"tags":[466,465,463,125,464,411,462],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous-chocolate-information","category-vitamin-ch","tag-andes-mints","tag-chocolate-mint","tag-crest","tag-health","tag-mint-chocolate","tag-theodent","tag-toothpaste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44934,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions\/44934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}