Gum base is the non-nutritive, non-digestible, water-insoluble masticatory delivery system used to carry sweeteners, flavors and any other desired substances in chewing gum and bubble gum. It provides all the basic textural and masticatory properties of gum. A sweetener is a food additive which adds the basic taste of sweetness to a food. ... Flavors is the programming language that first included mixins. ... Chewing gum Chewing gum is a type of confectionery which is designed to be chewed instead of swallowed. ... Bubblegum is a type of chewing gum that is especially designed for blowing bubbles. ...

The exact composition of gum bases is usually a trade secret, but common ingredients can be latexes (eg. leche, caspi, sorva, nispero, tunu, jelutong, or chicle, which is still commercially produced), paraffin wax or beeswax, polyethylene, polyvinyl acetate, stearic acid, and various natural gums. A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information used by a business to obtain an advantage over competitors within the same industry or profession. ... The LaTeX logo, typeset with LaTeX , written as LaTeX in plain text, is a document preparation system for the (TeX) typesetting program. ... The Cas or Caspi were a tribe of the Dahae who settled south of the Caspian sea and north of the Alborz mountains, in what is now the Gīlān Province, in Achaemenid times. ... Binomial name Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb. ... Map of East Greenland Tunu/Østgrønland (East Greenland) is one of the three counties (amt) of Greenland. ... Jelutong (Dyera costulata) is a true emergent standing clear of the continuous canopy. ... Binomial name Manilkara chicle (Pittier) Gilly Chicle is the gum from Manilkara chicle, a species of sapodilla tree. ... Paraffin is a common name for a group of high molecular weight alkane hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH2n+2, where n is greater than about 20. ... Beeswax cake Fresh wax scales (in the middle of the lower row) Beeswax is a product from a bee hive. ... POLYETHYLENE [[In the polymer industry the name is sometimes shortened to PE, . The ethylene molecule connected by a double bond, thus: Polyethylene is created through polymerization of ethylene. ... Polyvinyl acetate or PVA is a rubbery synthetic polymer. ... Stearic acid, also called octadecanoic acid, is one of the useful types of saturated fatty acids that comes from many animal and vegetable fats and oils. ... Natural gums are polysaccharides of natural origin, capable of causing a large viscosity increase in solution, even at small concentrations. ...

Old gum bases were based on latexes, vegetable gums like chicle, spruce gum, or mastic gum. Alternative choices were waxes, eg. paraffin wax and beeswax. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana and at Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company are studying the possibility of making gum base with biodegradable zein (corn protein). [1] The LaTeX logo, typeset with LaTeX , written as LaTeX in plain text, is a document preparation system for the (TeX) typesetting program. ... Natural gums are polysaccharides of natural origin, capable of causing a large viscosity increase in solution, even at small concentrations. ... Binomial name Manilkara chicle (Pittier) Gilly Chicle is the gum from Manilkara chicle, a species of sapodilla tree. ... Spruce Gum is made from the sap of spruce trees. ... Binomial name Pistacia lentiscus L. Mastic (Pistacia lentiscus) is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing to 3-4 m tall, native to the Mediterranean region from Morocco and Iberia east to Turkey. ... Wax has traditionally referred to a substance that is secreted by bees (beeswax) and used by them in constructing their honeycombs. ... Paraffin is a common name for a group of high molecular weight alkane hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH2n+2, where n is greater than about 20. ... Beeswax cake Fresh wax scales (in the middle of the lower row) Beeswax is a product from a bee hive. ... Zein is a class of prolamine protein found in maize. ...

See also

• Bubblegum
• Chewing gum
• Functional gum
• Gum industry
• List of chewing gum brands

Bubblegum is a type of chewing gum that is especially designed for blowing bubbles. ... Chewing gum Chewing gum is a type of confectionery which is designed to be chewed instead of swallowed. ... Functional gum is the name given to types of chewing gum which impart some practical function instead of, or in addition to, the usual enjoyment provided by a traditional chewing gum as a confectionery product. ... Two multi-national companies, Wrigley and Cadbury, together account for more than 60% market share of the world-wide chewing gum market. ... This is a list of chewing gum manufacturers. ...

References

External links

• The Story of Gum