What's in gum??!
What's in gum??
what do they put in gum to make it chewy?
does it have any animal products in it
Answers:
Gum basically is made out of various resins and rosins for the base. Various plants are used for gum and various fruits are used to flavor it. More recently gum is made out of more artificial flavors.
Chewing Gum: Some chewing gums contain glycerine. Wrigleys gum contains a vegetarian source of glycerine.
Is 'gum base' in chewing gum vegan?
from the Vegetarian Resource Group:
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 (a possible allergen) may be among the components.
Because of standards of identity for items such as gum base and flavoring, manufacturers are not required to list everything in their product.
According to Dertoline, a French chemical manufacturer, their adhesive "dercolytes" are used as a label and tape adhesive, as well as a chewing gum base.
Many brands also list glycerin and glycerol as ingredients on the label.
Both of them can be animal derived.
Check these out too:
http://www.wrigley.com/wrigley/products/...
http://www.bouldertea.com/gum/gumingredi...
Source(s):
http://www.ivu.org/faq/ingredients.html...
its practically fat wastes...LOLz
no animal products
the gum comes from a gum tree wel the gummy stuff
tree sap.
It depends on what kid of gum you want to buy, but most have animals products in them, such as glucose.
There are some brands that don't have any animal products, but being the type of person who doesn't like gum at all, I can't tel you their names. Been quite a while since I even bought any.
glucose is from sugar. gum is from a tree.
This website i found tells you all about it:
http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/d...
no animal products