Bubblegum writing

Bubble Gum

  Do you ever wonder why people tell you not to swallow gum? Well here’s the reason why.

  Bubble gum is made from Chicle, a form of rubber. First, the gum base is already prepared through a melting and straining process. Next, other ingredients like nutritive or nonnutritive sweeteners or flavours are added to the gum base until the warm mixture is thick like dough. Then the gum is smoothened, formed and shaped into gum. The gum then goes through a shaping process that is by gum type and owner demand.

  Sweeteners or flavours are added to the gum, until it is thick like dough. The gum is then shaped into the owner’s demand by its gum type, the gum is then cut into pieces. Finally, the gum is wrapped and sent to packaging.

After the gum is shaped and cut into pieces, they sprinkle it with powder polyolefin or it is coated onto the gum. The gum is then wrapped with the inner layer of the wrapper looking like regular paper, and the outside layer looking life foil. This is because the paper on the inside would prevent the quality of the gum from breaking down, and the foil on the outside would help seal its freshness.

Now you know why people tell you not to swallow gum, because gum nowadays are made from rubber, and rubber is one of the things that our bodies can’t dissolve.