 They're little capsules with a minty coating. You pop two or three in your mouth, and you suck off the minty coating, and then you swallow the capsules. So the mint part takes care of your mouth feeling fresh and clean. And then the capsules go to work in your gut, because there's parsley seed inside. And bad breath sometimes starts in your gut with the foods you eat. Well, Zellman's takes care of that. And it's the only mint that I know that does that. That's Zellman's.