Chewing gun happens to be a form of relaxation that we practice. But man has wanted to chew something to relax even when gum wasn’t available. So in many parts of the world people have chewed various resins, or leaves and grass.
Gum is prepared from Chicle and other similar substances. Chicle itself has been chewed for hundreds of years! The Mayans and other Central Americans chewed for centuries before the white man came along.
As a matter of fact, the Indians of New England chewed resins from the spruce tree and the Americans picked up the habit from them. In the early 1800’s the first chewing-gum marketed in the United States was spruce gum. In the 1860’s the use of Chicle as a chewing-gum base was developed. It had a good chewy quality and it could hold flavor. As a result, it increased the popularity of chewing-gum.
In marketing chewing- gum, the gum base ingredients and washes, ground, sterilized, and mixed. The melted base is combined with corn syrup, sugar, and flavoring in mixing kettles. The mixture is then rolled into sheets and divided into sticks or tiny balls. Peppermint and spearmint, the essential oils obtained from mint plants, are the two leading flavors. One stick of gum contains about nine calories.
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