Who first started chewing gum? Detailed answer

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Who first started chewing gum?

Why do people chew? This helps them relax. Today we often use this tool. But even before chewing gum was invented, people wanted to chew something to relax. Therefore, in different countries, people chewed resin and even leaves and grass.

Chewing gum is made from natural rubber and other elastic materials. People have been chewing rubber for hundreds of years! The Maya and other Central Americans chewed rubber for millennia, long before the first white people arrived.

Indians in New England chewed spruce resin, and the American colonizers adopted this habit from them. In the early XNUMXth century, the first chewing gum sold in the United States was made from spruce resin.

In the 60s of the XIX century, rubber began to be used as the basis for chewing gum. It was comfortable to chew and could hold odors. As a result, the popularity of gum has increased greatly.

Today, chewing gum is 20% elastic base, 19% corn syrup, 60% sugar and 1% flavoring. To make it more elastic, up to 25% milky juice or other similar substances are added to the mixture. These products are obtained from wild trees that grow in tropical forests. An incision is made on the tree, and the milky juice flows into containers. The juice is collected, boiled and shaped into cubes.

To make chewing gum, the main ingredients are washed, ground, sterilized and mixed. In mixing pots, corn syrup, sugar, and flavorings are added to the melted base. Then the finished mixture is rolled out and cut into plates or cubes. The essential oil, which is obtained from peppermint and spearmint, is the main flavor. One piece of chewing gum contains up to 9 calories.

Author: Likum A.

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