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Bursting the bubble gum myth

 
When you swallow chewing gum, does it really take seven years to digest?

Nope! According to officials at Wrigley, makers of Big Red and Juicy Fruit, it only takes a few days to digest when you accidentally swallow a wad of the chewy stuff. Chewing gum consists of five basic ingredients, four of which dissolve in your mouth—flavor, sweeteners, corn syrup and softeners. The fifth ingredient, gum base, doesn’t dissolve but eventually passes through your system undigested, much like fiber.

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interesting.yeah, like when i swallow gum, peoples are all like, ewwwwwwwwwwwwww.............and i'm all like, what? and they're like ,ur not supposed to swallow gum...
people also think it can get stuck in like ur intestines, or something...now i'm gonna make a buncha weird symbols.o▬o♂▬↔+Ü╝MX9c7└♦+Ü6?♣6ÿ5↑Φ3♣61,┴61☻♀╚-6588♣645♠5♠8"Θæò!◄╤╤╤∟8╤Ω╜U∟Ü|‼╝♣6♣╝21↨|!♥☺☻♥♦♣♠•◘○

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by nirvanaluver on 2/8/2009 4:29:08 PM

 
 

Feeww good bc i just swalowed like a half pack of gum

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by newyork8998 on 2/8/2009 1:22:10 PM

 
 

i luv gum, especially trident tropic twist! i've heard the myth b4 but i never believed it. also, wasn't this on bod squad b4? i remember reading this article a LOOOONG time ago.

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by twlight4eva on 2/8/2009 11:35:36 AM

 
 

Wow, that would be so wierd if it took 7 years!

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by Brittney538 on 2/8/2009 9:04:00 AM

 
 

OMG! I really thought it did take tht long! Lol pheeww because i've accidently swallowed my gum before. Thankx for the info(:

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by GLfan2009 on 2/7/2009 3:55:44 PM

 
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