What is chewing gum made of?
Chewing gum takes synthetic rubber, paraffin wax, limestone, sugar, corn syrup and glycerin directly. Trace them back and you pass 18 made things on the way to 13 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 13 raw materials
- Limestone goes straight in
- Water through corn syrup
- Crude oil through paraffin wax
- Sugarcane through sugar
- Sugar beet through sugar
- Corn through corn syrup
- Natural gas through synthetic rubber, ethylene
- Oil palm fruit through glycerin, palm oil
- Soybeans through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Clay through glycerin, vegetable oil
- Rock salt through glycerin, caustic soda
- Coal through synthetic rubber, benzene, toluene