Chewing Gum

Appears in
Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets

By Darra Goldstein

Published 2015

  • About

chewing gum is made of any number of cohesive and sticky substances that people chew but do not swallow. It can be as simple as the naturally flavored sap of a tree or as complex as artificially flavored hydrocarbon polymers like styrene butadiene rubber.