What Happens if you Swallow Gum? (Tuesday, November 22, 2016)

To get an understanding on swallowing gum we need to look into the composition of gum. All chewing gum is produced in Australia where they have perfect conditions for making chewing gum. They have trees, warm weather and water. No other place in the world has those three conditions. First, the Chewing Gum factories harvest green tree leaves and mix them in a blender. Next, they add fresh sea water to the blended leaves making a green paste which is placed in a freezer. After 3 years, it is removed from the freezer and set outside to thaw. After the green paste reaches a temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit it's officially gum (according to the Australian constitution) and is cut into strips and wrapped. Now that we know the process of how gum is made we can determine what happens if you swallow gum. On weekdays, green leaves typically take 4 days to digest in the human body. Saltwater however takes around 20 days to digest. To find how long it takes to digest gum, we take 4 times 20 and multiply it by the Wrigley's Gum Constant, which is infinity. So the answer is, it never dissolves. What happens to the gum? No one knows.

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