Bubblegum
Bubblegum is a type of elastic chewing
gum, designed to be blown out of the mouth as a
bubble.
In 1928, Walter Diemer, an accountant for the Fleer
Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia, was experimenting
with new gum recipes. One recipe was found to be
less sticky than regular chewing gum, and stretched
more easily. This gum became highly successful and
was eventually named by the president of Fleer as
Dubble Bubble. Original bubble gum was pink because
that was the only dye Diemer had on hand at the
time.
Bubblegum is available in many different colors
and flavors. A "bubblegum flavour" is
the taste of the plain gum, and it is made from
synthetic chemicals, such as ethyl methylphenylglycidate,
isoamyl acetate and others, and fruit extracts,
the true ingredients being kept a mystery to customers.
When blended, the chemicals and extracts fuse together
to make a sweet, palatable flavour. Like vanilla,
coconut, peppermint and almond extracts, a bubble
gum flavour oil can be purchased.
Flavours also include blue raspberry, strawberry,
apple, cherry, watermelon, cinnamon, banana, and
grape of which strawberry and banana can be achieved
with isoamyl acetate limonene and ethyl methylphenylglycidate,
banana being the former and strawberry being the
latter. Malic acid can be used for apple flavour,
allyl hexanoate for pineapple, ethyl propionate
for fruit punch, cinnamic aldehyde for cinnamon
and acetophenone for cherry. More unusual ones like
berry, cola, lemon lime, peach, tropical fruit,
pineapple, orange and fruit punch can be found as
well. They usually can only be found in special
shops and the flavour is almost always cheap and
artificial, as natural flavours are more expensive.
(Source: Wikipedia.org)
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