Sentences with phrase «gum base»

The chicle boom continued up until the Great Depression of the 1930s when it collapsed as a result of the general economic malaise and the development of synthetic substitutes for chewing gum base.

Fun fact: Most modern gum is made with a synthetic gum base; Glee Gum uses chicle, a tree sap harvested sustainably from the rainforest of Central America.

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Chewing gum is made from a water - insoluble gum base and water - soluble flavouring.

Today these people, as well as the Mopanero Maya who live in Succotz near Benque Viejo, were the main force behind the chicle (chewing gum base) industry.

Most modern gum is made with a synthetic gum base; Glee Gum uses chicle, a tree sap harvested sustainably from the rainforest of Central America.

As in Glee Gum, the gum base in the pops is safe for those with latex allergies to eat.

Plus, Glee Gum has the distinction of using natural chicle in its gum base.

Our Make Your Own Chewing Gum Kit, Refill Kit, and Gum Base by the Pound contain a different gum base made with natural rubber latex, harvested sustainably from rainforest rubber trees.

The simple answer would be to use sugarfree gum and call it a day, but each brand of gum has its own set of ingredients, but most contain a gum base plus a variety of sugar alcohols, including sorbitol, mannitol or maltitol, artificial flavors and even sweeteners.

«Most chewing gums innocuously list «gum base» as one of their ingredients, masking the fact that petroleum, lanolin, glycerin, polyethylene, polyvinyl acetate, petroleum wax, stearic acid, and latex may be among the components.»

We had always wanted the indigestible part of our gum — the gum base — to be as natural as the rest of our gum.

After World War II, chemists learned to make synthetic rubber, which eventually replaced most natural rubber as a chewing gum base.

Today the ubiquitous ingredient «gum base» is label shorthand for an alphabet soup of potentially toxic ingredients.