2006-07-03 09:55:27 · 14 answers · asked by bradsmu88 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
It doesn't...that's why it is suggested that we do NOT swallow it..
2006-07-03 09:59:18 · answer #1 · answered by masya_art 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depending on the brand, the base part of the gum may not dissolve at all and is excreted like other items your body cannot digest. The sugar, sugar substitutes, flavoring and colorings should dissolve in 1-2 hours or less
2006-07-03 10:04:53 · answer #2 · answered by Jimbo Ketan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
about 7 years
2006-07-03 10:01:44 · answer #3 · answered by Shalana 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
years
2006-07-03 09:57:23 · answer #4 · answered by flatlander1967 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
7 years.
2006-07-03 09:58:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't dissolve. Eventually your stomach muscles push it out of your stomach and it gets eliminated like all other waste.
2006-07-03 09:59:09 · answer #6 · answered by Elizabeth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It never does. It gets lodged in your appendix and you have to have surgery. (That's what my parents told ME to scare me out of swallowing it when I was a kid!)
Seriously, it resists digestion, as others have noted above, it eventually gets eliminated, pretty much in its original state.
2006-07-03 09:59:19 · answer #7 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, gum do not dissolve.
2006-07-03 09:59:03 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure that it dessolves.. I think that it just works its way through your body and then comes out of you. I mean it doesn't break down in your mouth while you chew it so why would it break down in your stomach?
2006-07-03 09:59:35 · answer #9 · answered by Lola 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it does not but it does not stay there for 7 years like the urban myth says
it just passes through your system
2006-07-03 09:59:42 · answer #10 · answered by JUS K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It won't dissolve. You'll simply pass it.
2006-07-03 09:59:09 · answer #11 · answered by Kryzchek 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋