受到一种会分泌粘液的蛞蝓的启发，研究人员研发出了一种粘性且柔软的物质，它能有效地封合手术后的伤口。在许多领域中 ...

Xanthan gum is a common food and drug additive. It’s a type of carbohydrate made by bacteria called Xanthomonas campestris. During fermentation, the bacteria break down sugars and produce a ...

THERE AREN’T MANY natural remedies that boast as many benefits as mastic gum. It’s said to support dental, heart, and gastrointestinal health. But is there evidence to support these claims?

Yum! Eventually most of the sweetener and flavoring slide down your throat with your saliva and the great taste becomes a memory. Gum base does not dissolve in saliva. This is why you lose the flavor, ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Bubble gum starts out with gum base, then flavorings and sweeteners are added. When it's all mixed up, it looks like a giant pink monster. The way it's streamlined ...

In the 2000 movie Bounce, Gwyneth Paltrow's character, Abby, explains that she really isn't a smoker at heart, but has started puffing on cigarettes to help her get off the nicotine gum to which ...

Mastic Gum Production Process Mastic gum is harvested by making small cuts in the bark of the Pistacia lentiscus tree, ...

British designer Anna Bullus is on a mission to recycle chewing gum into useful objects, cleaning up our streets in the process. More than £14bn is spent on chewing gum around the world each year ...

WE CAN’T HELP IT. Show us a list promising a Top 10 or Top whatever, and we look. I looked at such a list from the Washington State Department of Agriculture. It was a ranking of six crops for ...