what material was world's first chewing gum?

Question

when ,where ,and who discovered it?
Where it was first sold?

Answer 1

The Greeks chewed mastic gum, made from the resin of the mastic tree. Betel, a mild narcotic, has enjoyed popularity in India for millennia. Many other cultures have chewed gum-like substances made from plants, grasses, and resins. The American Indians chewed resin made from the sap of spruce trees. The New England settlers picked up this practice, and in the early 1880s attempts were made to commercially market spruce gum. Around 1850 a gum made from paraffin wax was developed and soon exceeded the spruce gum in popularity. Modern chewing gum was first developed in the 1860s when chicle was imported from Mexico for use as a rubber subsititute. Chicle did not succeed as a replacement for rubber, but as a gum it soon dominated the market. Chicle gum, and gum made from similar latexes, had a smoother and softer texture and held flavor better. Most chewing gum companies have switched to synthetic gum bases because of its low price and availability. According to their website, Glee Gum is the last gum manufacturer in the United States to produce gum using all-natural chicle.[1] In 1848 John B. Curtis developed and sold the first commercial chewing gum called The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum.

In 1855 a group of liberals led by Benito Juárez and Ignacio Comonfort overthrew Mexican dictator Santa Anna, who fled back to Cuba. He then lived in exile in Cuba, the United States, Colombia, and St. Thomas. During his time in New York City he is credited as bringing the first shipments of chicle, the base of chewing gum, to the United States, but he failed to profit from this since his plan was to use the chicle to replace a rubber in carriage tires, which was tried without success. The American assigned to aid Santa Anna while he was in the US, Thomas Adams, conducted experiments with the chicle and called it "Chiclets", which helped found the chewing gum industry. William Semple filed the first patent on chewing gum, patent number 98,304

Answer 2

# The ancient Greeks chewed mastiche - a chewing gum made from the resin of the mastic tree.
# The ancient Mayans chewed chicle which is the sap from the sapodilla tree.
# North American Indians chewed the sap from spruce trees and passed the habit along to the settlers.
# Early American settlers made a chewing gum from spruce sap and beeswax.
# In 1848, John B. Curtis made and sold the first commercial chewing gum called the State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum.
# In 1850, Curtis started selling flavored paraffin gums becoming more popular than spruce gums.
# On December 28 1869, William Finley Semple became the first person to patent a chewing gum - U.S patent #98,304.
# In 1869, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna introduced Thomas Adams to chicle.
# In 1871, Thomas Adams patented a machine for the manufacture of gum.
# In 1880, John Colgan invented a way to make chewing gum taste better for a longer period of time while being chewed.
# By 1888, an Adams' chewing gum called Tutti-Frutti became the first chew to be sold in a vending machine.
# In 1899, Dentyne gum was created by New York druggist Franklin V. Canning.
# In 1906, Frank Fleer invented the first bubble gum called Blibber-Blubber gum. However, the bubble blowing chew was never sold.
# In 1914, Wrigley Doublemint brand was created. William Wrigley, Jr. and Henry Fleer were responsible for adding the popular mint and fruit extracts to a chicle chewing gum.
# In 1928, an employee of the Frank H. Fleer Company, Walter Diemer invented the successful pink colored Double Bubble, bubble gum. The very first bubble gum was invented by Frank Henry Fleer in 1906. He called it Blibber-Blubber. Fleer's recipe was later perfected by Walter Diemer, who called his product Double Bubble.

Answer 3

Before chicle and other vegetable gums it is possible that tar was chewed. Deposits of either/both oil and tar appeared in various places in the world right on land surface.

What made me think of that is that in 1940s I lived on Isleta Reservation beside the railroad tracks and the boys would get warm gobs of tar off the tracks in the hot sun and chew it. I was only just learning Spanish out of necessity, a sort of 3rd language, so it was hard to learn from the sisters and mothers just what they were doing and why. I think they just liked to chew it, but it was to keep their teeth white.

Answer 4

chewing gum originates from tree resin and therefore not sold as such until modern times. As to who prepared the modern gum and where it was sold I know and care not. There are more important things to consider in life

Answer 5

tree sap probley traded instead of sold

before c gum the egyptians chewed honey combs not to tasty to long
wrigley bros first massed produced it in 1800s

Answer 6

I don't know if it was THE oldest but it might be. It's a substance called 'chiche' and found in a plant in Mexico & Latin America. That's where the name of the gum "Chicklets" comes from.