It tastes like rubber: a blogger told how chewing gum is actually made (2 photos + 1 video)

Mike Corey explained that the chewing gum people often buy in stores contains a lot of unpalatable ingredients.





Blogger and adventurer Mike Corey has a warning for anyone buying chewing gum. In one of his latest YouTube videos, a man explained how chewing gum is actually made.

The blogger decided to find out the whole truth about the creation of chewing gum. Mike began his story by recalling that since the 1950s, the original plant ingredients have increasingly been replaced by unpalatable ingredients such as rubber, plastic, and even glue. Before this, the ancient Greeks, Native Americans, and Mayan and Aztec cultures independently developed the idea of ​​a natural, plant-based chewable substance that was not a food.

Mike explained that the gum we buy in stores now contains a lot of unpalatable ingredients.

"After finding out what I just did, I don't think I'll ever chew gum again," he said.



Mike traveled to the forests of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula to learn about the origins of chewing gum and meet one of the few remaining men who climb the sapodilla tree to collect its sap to create chewing gum. The blogger’s new acquaintance showed how he cuts notches in the bark of a tree, which serve as support when climbing and form a channel through which liquid flows into a bucket below.

Mike collected some fresh chicle and says that once he found out what was in the mass-produced chewing gum, he would never touch it again.

"After the war, in the 1950s, we got the old bait and switch: natural chicle juice was replaced with synthetic, making the gum more flexible and durable. And no one noticed anything," he noted.

Modern gum has a bizarre list of ingredients, including, according to Mike, the same rubber we use in tires.

"Honestly, this is probably one of the most delicious ingredients in modern chewing gum. The next one, if you can believe it, is even worse. Glue," the blogger added.