Toothpaste

I am here today to question a very widely held assumption.

I understand that mint is a refreshing flavor, but I really don't understand how it is that it has become almost the only flavor anyone ever thinks to make toothpaste. What's with that? How very uncreative.

My personal flavor preferences aside, I just don't see why toothpaste companies seem to have a fixation with mint. There are so many different flavors which could be seen as enjoyable and refreshing to use for toothpaste, but they are rarely tried. It seems no one ever even thinks about the possibility of toothpaste being anything other than mint. They just take it for granted.

But why does toothpaste even need to be zesty in the first place? Of course you want to feel like you have cleaned your teeth, and probably wouldn't enjoy Bacon flavoured toothpaste, but why is mint the only 'clean' flavor? Why not Lemon? Why not Pine!? :P Well I'd enjoy pine toothpaste anyways. Why not have Parsley flavor? Or perhaps a nice comforting Vanilla? Licorice or Ginger might be nice. Green tea sounds good too. Seriously, why not? Why is it the major brands don't try these things, or don't market them much if they do?

It just strikes me as illogical and inexplicable that mint should be the only flavor considered suitable for toothpaste. How did this come to be the assumption? Why-ever would toothpaste companies not cash in on all the additional options they could offer? They do all the varieties of mint, but whyever would they not branch out further than that? It just really doesn't make sense to me at all.