some chemistry of chewing gum

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REPORT ON BUBBLE GUM

By

Group Sub-Zero

Owais Ali Shah

Ahmed Salar

Mashrur AzadMuhammad Suleiman

Hamza Riaz

Mohammad Yaqoub

Sir Sadiq Ameen


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HOW GUM IS MADE

Companies manufacture chewing and bubble gums with long-lasting

flavor and dependable, uniform quality. This includes manufacturing

our gum in spotless, air-conditioned rooms and sampling all

ingredients before accepting them into any factories. After raw

ingredientsare approved for quality, the first production stage

begins.

Meltingthe making of gum begins by melting and purifying the gum base.

Mixing

the melted base is poured into a mixer that can hold up to one ton of ingredients.

Sweeteners and flavors are added at just the right moment and in just the right

amounts and then slowly mixed.

Rolling

From the mixers, a large "loaf" of gum is sent through a series of rollers that form

it into a thin, wide ribbon. Each pair of rollers is set closer together than the

previous pair, gradually reducing the thickness of the gum. A light coating of finely

powdered sugar or sugar substitute is added during this process to keep the gum

from sticking and to enhance flavor.

Scoring

At the end of the rolling process, the continuous ribbon of gum is then cut into a

pattern for sticks, short thicker tabs, long rolled strips or small rectangular gum

centers, depending on what type of gum is being made.
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Conditioning

the scored gum is then moved to a temperature-controlled environment to cool and

ensure the finished gum will have the right consistency and stay fresh on storeshelves.

Breaking and Coating

after tempering, the gum centers are broken into individual pieces. The pieces are

then fed to a spray drier that forms the crunchy coating around the gum center.

It tumbles the pieces while a prepared syrup mixture, made of filtered water,

sweeteners, and coloring is sprayed onto the gum. This combination of tumbling andspray coating forms a candy shell around the soft gum centers.

Wrapping

after cooling and tempering, skilled operators break the sheets of sticks up into

sections and feed them into the wrapping machine. In one continuous process, the

wrapping machine receives and wraps the sticks, in some cases applying an outer

wrapper and seals the ends of the package.

Packaging

Pellet-style gum is principally packaged by two methods. One is to place the pellets

in the formed plastic compartments of a blister pack. The package is heat sealed

with a foil backing, and inserted into a cardboard sleeve. The second method is to

line up ten pellets in a row, wrap in traditional packaging and seal both ends to

ensure freshness. For Wrigley's Hubba Bubba Bubble Tape, a ribbon of gum is

rolled up and placed in a plastic clamshell-like package.

BY: Muhammad Suleiman


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PRODUCTION OF BUBBLE GUM DESCRIBED IN

A PHOTO

BY: Hamza Riaz


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Some Chemistry of Chewing gum

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Chewing gum was made fromthe latex sap of the sapodilla

tree.Some other natural basesmay be used such as, sorva and

jelutong, sometimes even

beeswax or paraffin are used.This sap was called chicle.

Gum contains sweeteners, flavorings, and softeners.

Softeners are ingredients such as glycerin or vegetable oil that

are used to blend the other ingredients and help prevent the

gum from becoming hard or stiff.


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There is a difference between chewing gum and bubble gum.

Bubble gum is made with more sweeteners and ingredients to

make it thicker so it will hold together when a bubble is blown.

Some sweeteners used are:

1. Sucralose

2. Aspartame

Sugar free Chewing GumsXylitol

BY: Ahmed Salar

Xylitol is used in chewing gum and in dental care. The structure of xylitol contains

a tridentate ligand, (H-C-OH)3 that can rearrange with polyvalent cations like Ca2+

.

This interaction allows Ca2+

to be transported through the gut wall barrier and

through saliva may remineralize enamel before dental caries form.


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THE SALT OF SATURN

Lead(II) acetate also called lead sugarIt is a white crystalline chemical compound with a sweetish taste. It is made by

treating lead (II) oxide with acetic acid.

It was used as a sweetener in chewing gum for many years but was really

dangerous as it could cause lead poisoning so its usage in foods was banned

Silver acetate

Silver acetate is a photosensitive, white crystalline solid.

It is a useful reagent in the laboratory as a water soluble source of

silver lacking an oxidizing anion. It has been used in some

antismoking drugs. In the health field, silver acetate-containing

products have been used in gum.

BY: Owais Ali Shah


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Some Facts About Bubble Gum

1.100,000 tons of bubble gum is chewed every year all around the

world.

2.According to the Guinness Book of

World Records, the largest bubble ever

blown measured 23 inches in diameter!

3.It is believed that ancient Greeks found relief from stress by

chewing a gum that was made from a resin.

4.The first bubble gum ever marketed was marketed under the name

'Blibber-Blubber'.

5.The color of the first successful

bubble gum was pink because it was

the only color that was left with the

inventor.

6.Some mathematician once calculated and figured out that the

energy Americans spend every day when chewing bubble gum was

enough to light a city of ten million people.


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7.In the year 1983 Singapore proposed a ban on bubble gum in all

housing projects, claiming that it cost the city SGD 75,000 per year to

clean up discarded wads.

8.By the 1940s, bubble gum had become

so popular, that it was included in the

ration kits given to U.S. Soldiers.

9.In Africa, it was said that various tribes

accepted large quantities of bubble gum

in lieu of sheep and oxen as payment for a wife. (LOL)

10.The average American chews around 300 sticks of gum in one year.

11.Richard Walker holds the world record for the Chomp Title, bychewing 135 sticks of bubble gum for 8 hours at a stretch. The first

person to win the 'Chomp Title' was Sue Jordan, who chewed eighty

pieces of gum for all of five hours and twelve minutes!

12.The head of the Philadelphia Chewing Gum Company (who happen

to be the makers of Swell Bubble Gum), Edward L. Fenimore, has been

said to have blown a bubble within a bubble within a bubble, that is, a

triple whammy!


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13. Kids in North America spend approximately half a billion dollars

on bubble gum every year.

14.Chewing bubble gum is said to keep you from crying as it reduces

stress and helps in concentration.

BY: Mashrur Azad

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