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Originally, chewing gum was made from tree sap but today's commercial brands are loaded with harmful ingredients and chemicals.
The modern day chewing gums are made of four major ingredients including synthetic rubber, plastic, sugar, and coloring (dye). Modern day gums are produced from synthetic polymers such as styrene-butadiene rubbers and polyvinyl acetate. The final product is composed of 60% sugar, 20% corn syrup, and only 20% actual gum material.
If you're chewing gum you are chewing rubber and plastic. Chewing gum is known as a harmless cultural tradition but it contains many properties that may be hazardous to our health.
Today's chewing gums and bubble gums are predominantly sugar by volume. Seventy to eighty percent of most gums on the market today are sheer vehicles for sugar, the number one drug on the planet. Just as cigarettes are a conveyor for the addictive drug "nicotine", so is gum for sugar.
that's why I never liked chewing gum, and one more thing I hate about chewing gum is, it is so annoying looking at someone chewing like a goat :(
ReplyDeleteeven when i'm in grade school my teacher always scolds who chew gums on his class.so thanks to him i never chew gums.yuck!!you're eating like rubber and plastic??it's like your chewing tires!
ReplyDeleteDunno what country this article refers to, but in Australia gum isn't mainly sugar at all. In fact, it''s very hard to find sugared gum. It's all laced with something far worse: Artificial sweeteners. Aspartame and xylitol. They will make you very sick, and for some, they will kill. Unfortunately due to the greedy profit-driven companies, and incompetent, corrupt regulatory bodies such as the FDA, these chemicals have been allowed to proliferate our foods like diseases. We are now forced to never eat gum again, along with a host of other foodstuffs that were once harmless.
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