The first flavored chewing gum was created in the 1860s by John Colgan, a Louisville, Kentucky, pharmacist. Colgan mixed with powdered sugar the aromatic flavoring tolu , a powder obtained from an extract of the balsam tree ( Myroxylon ), creating small sticks of flavored chewing gum he named "Taffy Tolu". [ 15 ]

2009年6月16日 · As Mathews explains, chewing gum has been around on this continent for hundreds of years in the form of chicle, a resin extracted from the sapodilla tree in southern Mexico and Central America....

2015年2月13日 · In the late 1840s, John Curtis developed the first commercial spruce tree gum by boiling resin, then cutting it into strips that were coated in cornstarch to prevent them from sticking...

2024年3月8日 · Before the next century began, a humble soap salesman by the name of William Wrigley Jr. discovered the broad potential for chewing gum, branding two new versions in 1893 as Wrigley's Spearmint...

The first commercial chewing gum was made and sold in 1848 by John Bacon Curtis. He called his chewing gum the State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum. John B. Curtis and his brother (to some sources John B. Curtis and his father, John Curtis) came up with the practical idea of making and selling spruce gum as chewing gum. They experimented with spruce ...

Modern-day chewing gum: John B. Curtis created the first commercial chewing gum in Maine, USA, in 1845. He named the brand “The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum.” Though slow to start. It eventually became a huge hit. First patent: Years later, in 1869, the first chewing gum patent was filed by a local dentist, William F. Semple. ‍

2024年2月2日 · Thomas Adams is widely acknowledged as the father of modern chewing gum. His entrepreneurial spirit in the 19th century laid the foundation for the chewing gum industry as we know it today. Adams’ journey into gum manufacturing began with a failed attempt to create a rubber substitute from chicle, a natural gum sourced from the sapodilla tree.

2021年1月5日 · John Curtis created the first commercial gum, which he called The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum, by boiling spruce tree resin, cutting it into strips, and coating it with cornstarch to prevent sticking. In the early 1850s, Curtis opened the first chewing gum factory, located in Portland, Maine. Other gum developers soon followed suit.

2024年12月12日 · Chewing gum, sweetened product made from chicle and similar resilient substances and chewed for its flavor. Peoples of the Mediterranean have since antiquity chewed the sweet resin of the mastic tree as a tooth cleanser and breath freshener. Learn about the history and manufacturing of chewing gum.

1870 – Adams produces first flavored gum (licorice), which was also the first stick of chewing gum; 1871 – Adams patents first gum making machine; 1879 – William White discovers how to flavor chicle - choosing peppermint as the first flavor named Yucatan chewing gum; 1882 – Dr. Edward Beeman adds pepsin powder to chicle & promotes as ...