Gum chewing independently arose across different cultures and regions at different times, says Jennifer Mathews, an ...

Accounting for taste, texture, and how long each flavor actually lasts, we ranked these popular chewing gum brands from worst ...

Chewing gum in one form or another has been around for thousands of years. For centuries, gum consisted of the latex, called ...

"Chewing gum is an easy tool students can use for a ... Mayans chewed on the sap of the sapodilla tree and called it chicle. Native Americans introduced the sap of the spruce tree to early ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- British authorities and environmental groups were welcoming the launch this week of the world's first biodegradable chewing gum, which they say could help save some of the ...

The pair tested 10 brands of commercially available chewing gum, including five synthetic gums, which rely on petroleum-based polymers for their chewiness, and five natural gums, which use plant-based ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics ... which are made from plant materials like chicle instead of a rubber base. Natural gums resulted in about the same quantity of ...

Studies eventually did link chewing gum with reducing hunger and improved alertness when performing tasks. The increasing popularity of gum demanded more chicle, a demand that could not be met due ...

We want to tackle this and effect a wholescale change in behaviour when it comes to chewing gum. Made from the sustainably harvested tree sap chicle, Nuud gum decomposes as quickly as a banana skin – ...

The pair tested 10 brands of commercially available chewing gum, including five synthetic ... which use plant-based polymers like chicle or other tree sap. In the lab, a subject chewed seven ...