Chewing gum, non-swallowed candy
Chewing gum, one of the most common snacks.
In addition to understanding hunger, many people regard chewing gum as an artifact for quitting smoking and losing weight.
There are also claims that eating gum can reduce hunger. But studies have found that chewing gum does not reduce hunger, let alone reduce calorie intake, and mint-flavored gum can cause fruits and vegetables to taste bitter, indirectly making people reject healthy foods, but prefer heavy-tasting junk food.
But eating chewing gum is still good, eating gum can increase saliva secretion, saliva contains more than 10 kinds of enzymes, enzymes can break down harmful substances. Reduces the risk of disease.
In fact, no matter what type of food, excessive consumption will be harmful, whether chewing gum is harmful or beneficial, it is no problem to treat it as an occasional snack.
As a snack that can't be swallowed, how did chewing gum come about?
Before chewing gum was invented, people around the world loved to chew on some natural plants.
For example, in ancient times, Cao Cao liked to chew clove tea, and it is also recorded in the "Three Cao Collections". Clove tea keeps the breath fresh.
Lilacs, a seductive color
Many areas today love to chew betel nut.
The branches, latex, and various sweet grass leaves on some trees are also natural plants that people like to chew.
The predecessor of chewing gum is a frankincense resin. The first to chew frankincense resin were the ancient Greeks.
This frankincense resin is formed by the accumulation of bark fat from the Frankincense trees of Greece and Turkey.
Frankincense trees secrete gum
In the early 19th century, Americans began to eat chewing gum, which was made of spruce plastic.
At that time, Indians in New England taught American colonists to quench their thirst by chewing spruce gum.
In 1836, after a Mexican general was captured and released during a battle, he brought a dried heart fruit tree gum to New York, USA.
The fruit of the human heart is not like the human heart
Of course, the purpose of bringing human heart fruit gum into New York is not to eat it, but to use it instead of rubber.
When studying this plastic, someone put it in his mouth and chewed it, and found that the feeling of you chewing it was quite wonderful, so he processed this gum into a spherical substance that can be chewed.
In the 1860s, a new generation of chewing gum became popular in the United States, and the new generation of chewing gum was made of syrup plastic.
Sugar gum gum is latex extracted from mango trees in the rainforest of Central America.
Later, William F. Semple, a dentist in Ohio, usa, made a gum-based chewing gum product out of rubber for patients to exercise their jaws and irritate their gums. His idea was recognized, and in December 1869 he was granted the first patent for the manufacture of chewing gum.
Today, gum-based gum is made of artificial rubber, and gum-based gum candy is mainly divided into two types: chewing gum and bubble gum, the latter of which is more flexible to chew. In recent years, chewing gum and bubble gum have used gum-based chewing gum with lower viscosity to meet the needs of more consumers.
Probably because chewing gum is so popular, there is an Internet celebrity punch-in attraction related to chewing gum, he is known as the world's most disgusting attraction, the United States Seattle Parker Market, the wall is glued with millions of pieces of chewed gum.
In the early 1990s, many local people would go to the theater to see a performance, and when they passed the wall, they habitually glued chewed gum to the wall.
Others also draw scoops according to the gourd, and the chewing gum becomes sticky and sticky.
At first, the managers of the market would send people to clean up, but later found that this was a selling point that attracted tourists.
Simply called that wall the "Gum Wall", and let people stick gum on it until it became a popular attraction...
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To be honest, punching in this place and trying to put your own chewed gum on the wall is really a bit difficult to start, because if you are not careful, you will touch the chewed gum of others.