Today we return with a curiosity about one of the children's favorite treats, after talking about jelly beans and licorice. Let's see how chewing gum, chewing gum is made that many followers have among children and adults.
The video tells us about the origins of chewing gum, which dates back to the ancient Greeks, although we could also talk about the Mayans, and their evolution to the manufacturing process today of those gums perfect for making balloons.
You start using a rubber base, which allows the chewing gum to be elastic, and although tree resin was formerly used, today a synthetic resin, made of plastic and rubber. To the gum base dye is added, flavor and mixed with glucose syrup. Then dextrose, sweetener powder is added.
The resulting mass is compressed to form long gum strips that later, after a cooling process, will be cut to give it the final size and wrapped. The machines can process up to 900 gum per minute.
Now what we know how gum is made, we can only remember that it is not good for children to abuse chewing gum, that it will be better to opt for sugar-free varieties, and that they can only chew gum when they are old enough not to swallow them.
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