Tip 1: How Gum Came
Tip 1: How Gum Came
Chewing gum (chewing gum) is aInedible soft base and complex of flavored additives. The longer chewing gum is chewed, the less taste it has. Chewing gum in its usual form appeared at the end of the XIX century, but for many hundreds of years before this event people from different countries of the world used their special chewing gum.
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The ancient Greeks eliminated the remains of food and refreshedbreathing after eating resin mastic wood or beeswax. The Maya Indians used rubber for these purposes, which they gave, giving the Hevea juice to congeal. North American Indians made their own chewing gum. They evaporated parts of the coniferous trees on the fire, and then collected the resin. In Siberia, the "ancestor" of modern chewing gums was called tar. With her help, not only cleared the oral cavity, but also strengthened the gums, treated a number of diseases. In India, chewing gum, which was also an aphrodisiac, was made from lime, betel leaves and seeds of the areca palm.
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Europe became "chewing" in the 16th century. From the West Indies sailors brought chewing tobacco. The demand for it was huge. For three centuries it was chewing tobacco that remained the most popular chewing gum in the world.
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In 1848, an Englishman named John Curtis becameAdd the beeswax to pieces of resin, wrap it in paper and sell it as a chewing gum. After a while he opened a small factory. In each of the four boilers was cooked gum with its own taste, for example, liquorice or cream with sugar. Alas, the chewing gum of Curtis equally quickly spoiled both from the cold and from the heat.
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By the 60th years of the XIX century, Curtis was forced toto curtail production. The reason was not only a civil war, but not the unpopularity of its chewing gum. Firstly, they were sold only in one state of America; secondly, they looked unattractive, and thirdly, they repelled the public with impurities in the form of pieces of mud or pine needles.
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In 1869, the American Thomas Adams inventssomething that resembles a modern chewing gum. Experts still can not come to a consensus on how this happened. According to one version, a certain Lopez de Santa Ana used to chew a chicle - I can smell a sapodil tree. His translator Thomas Adams also tried and, realizing that he liked it, along with his son began to sell chicle to the people of New York. According to the second version, Adams bought a ton of rubber, intending to produce shoes and toys, but the idea had to be abandoned, and the rubber remained. And then the American cooked rubber, divided it into small portions and began to sell it as a chewing gum called Adams New York No. 1. A novelty, which had no taste, liked New Yorkers.
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In 1884, Adams produces chewing gumBlack Jack. It looks like an ordinary pencil and has a taste of liquorice. Chewing gum Black Jack was sold until the 1970s, and then was withdrawn from production. In 1986, its improved version reappeared on the shelves.
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At the Thomas Adams factory, the firstfruit chewing gum Tutti Frutti. The demand for it is so huge that in the New York subway even install vending machines with this kind of chewing gum.
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Classical chewing gum was inventedWilliam Wrigley. He, along with his father, was engaged in the production of soap and drew attention to the fact that the product is in demand due to a free bonus: every piece of Soap Wrigley was laced with chewing gums Lotta or Vassar. And then William decides to reorient the production, soon John Colgan has bought out a patent for a chewing gum with sugar and flavors that lasts long enough to taste. Soon the world was presented with mint chewing gum Wrigley`s Spearmint, which is well-known now. In the late 1890s, William Wrigley produced Wrigley's Juicy Fruit fruit chewing gum. In 1914, Wrigley's Doublemint appeared in America and Canada.
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The composition of the ideal chewing gum, whichis still used, was withdrawn in 1928. 24-year-old accountant Walter Dimer conducted dozens of experiments and found that elastic and delicious chewing gum is obtained from 20 percent of rubber (now synthetic polymers), 60 percent of sugar or substitutes, 19 percent of corn syrup and 1 percent of flavorings. Chewing gum Dimer was pink and allowed to inflate bubbles.
Tip 2: How Nicotine Gum Works
Nicotinic chewing gum is one of the mosteffective means to combat smoking. The action of such drugs is based on the nicotine in their composition, which in small doses enters the body and reduces the desire to smoke.
