2006-12-27 04:34:29 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Dental
No - modern chewing & bubble gums are actually mainly synthetic plastics - not like the older 'latex' gums of yesteryear.
They are TOTALLY indigestable. This of course makes no difference as they pass through the digestive system in around 24 hours. Only the sugar portion is digested - the rest just 'passes through'.
Much the same as the outer kernels of sweetcorn (indigestable cellulose), most unchewed nuts & seeds.
Nothing hangs around in the human gut too long...a couple of days tops.
2006-12-27 06:35:03 · answer #1 · answered by creviazuk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure this is rubbish, nothing stops in your stomach more than 24hrs as everything moves along, they say red meat bungs your intestines up in general but you eat a lot of it compared to gum. Stomach acid is very strong which is why heartburn hurts so much. Sweetcorn doesn't digest very well it, so some of it kinda comes out like how it went in. You pass it all out your bum
2006-12-27 12:47:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I saw this question a Dateline a while back. That is false, chewing gum is disgusted along with everything else. It doesn't take 7 years.
2006-12-27 13:01:36 · answer #3 · answered by just_acali_girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol, we never had problems when we were kids, we used to swallow our gum all the time! Even our dog used to chew it then swallow it if she found some in the street. I dont think it's true, it passes the way of all comestibles, healthy or not.
2006-12-27 18:03:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The stomach tries to digest it for 24 hours.
Then its get out of the other end.
2006-12-27 13:29:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Even if it did, it wouldn't stick around to be digested. It goes on out the egress within a day or so.
2006-12-27 12:43:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO! Chewing gum is digested just as all other foods are.
2006-12-27 12:38:32 · answer #7 · answered by Angel Eve 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I know someone who ate chewing gum and swallowed it and they got it stuck in there Intestines and had to goto the hospital in an Emergency!
so yes there such a thing as getting it stuck but I don't
know for how long for!?
2006-12-27 12:47:27 · answer #8 · answered by fireopal1392 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No it just comes straight out the other end, it cannot be digested by our digestive systems
2006-12-27 12:41:34 · answer #9 · answered by missree 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
no, from what i heard, it takes 7 yrs to digest the seed of a berry. (if im not wrong, its blueberry)
2006-12-27 12:58:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋