Does gum have animal products?

Does chewing gum have animal products? This topic is also one of the most talked about chewing gum; today, we will answer the topic.

We all know what chewing gum is; chewing gum is a small-mouth snack that contains the essence, color, and other raw materials and can be chewed. This kind of small snack is very popular with consumers, and chewing gum in different packaging forms, shapes, and flavors can often be seen in supermarkets or stores, which is very common and popular. Chewing gum is familiar to everyone, but the added raw materials inside the gum, do you know? What raw materials are added, and whether any of those raw materials are animal products? Let's answer them all in this article.

One of the reasons chewing gum is so popular must be the pleasure of chewing it. Because chewing gum can be chewed, chewing gum has become different from other candies (lollipops, candies, toffees...). So why is gum chewable? This has to say a main raw material, gum base. Gum base is a non-nutritious food additive indigestible and not easily soluble in water. Because of the addition of gum base, the gum becomes elastic and chewable. Then you might ask, is the gum base an animal product? What are its main components? Gum base does not belong to animal products; its main components include synthetic rubber, resins, fillers, waxes, softeners, and emulsifiers. Although different raw materials are added to the gum base, none belong to animal products, which is why the gum base is not an animal product. From this, we have concluded that the gum base, one of the most important raw materials of chewing gum, is not animal products and does not contain animal products.

Now, let's talk about the second ingredient in chewing gum: glucose syrup. Glucose syrup probably many people have heard of and know what it is; from the name, we know that glucose syrup is a syrup, a raw material that makes chewing gum sweet. Glucose syrup is widely used to produce sweets, biscuits, and other small snacks. Then, people will ask whether the glucose syrup is made from animal products and whether it contains animal products. Let's clarify what glucose syrup is and which raw materials it contains. Glucose syrup is a starch syrup produced with starch as raw material and under the action of enzymes or acids. In production, glucose syrup can be produced by the microbial enzymatic method; this method has obvious advantages over the traditional acid hydrolysis method, such as raw materials do not need to be refined, not need acid, pressure-resistant equipment, sugar liquid no bitterness, high sugar. Glucose syrup also has applications in the pharmaceutical industry, including as a raw material for producing antibiotics, icing in pills, and sucrose as a carrier for cough drops. After analyzing the raw materials and production methods of glucose syrup, we can conclude that glucose syrup is not an animal product and does not contain the raw materials of any animal products.

With society's continuous development, people are paying increasing attention to healthy diets. This has led gum manufacturers to adjust their formulations. The most obvious change is the addition of some traditional white sugar and glucose syrup to healthier calories and fewer calories of sugar substitutes or sugar-free syrups like Xylitol, Maltitol, and Sorbitol. All those sugar-free raw materials also don't belong to animal products or contain any animal products.

The most abundant ingredients in chewing gum are sugar and gum base, which we have already discussed and know that they are not animal products and do not contain any animal products. So, in addition to the gum base and sugar raw materials, chewing gum also contains what other raw materials? Flavor, color, glycerin, lecithin, and other trace elements. Flavor is the raw material that gives chewing gum different flavors. There are generally natural flavors and synthetic flavors, but they do not contain any animal products. The color is the raw material that makes the chewing gum have colorful characteristics, and the color also has natural and synthetic colors, which are not animal products. Other trace elements include but are not limited to glycerin, lecithin, and citric acid; these are edible food additives, do not contain animal products, and do not belong to animal products.

Let us conclude: the raw materials of chewing gum are gum base, syrup, sugar-free raw materials, flavors, colors, lecithin, glycerin, etc. These raw materials are not animal products, nor do they contain raw materials of animal products. All in all, chewing gum is not an animal product; it does not have animal products. Worried people can rest assured of using bold purchases. Let's experience the fun of chewing together. If you have any questions about gum or gum base, please get in touch with us; we are professional gum base manufacturers and can provide you with professional production advice.




Author: Wuxi Gum Base
Publication Date: 12/16/2024