Unwrapped celebrates an American classic: the glorious gumball.
Brightly colored and highly appealing, gumball machines have been mesmerizing the young and old for years and years. An eye-catching addition to your home or office, these historical candy vending machines has been dispensing shiny and colorful gumballs into the eager hands of their operators for a long time.
You can make all kinds of candy at home, so why not try your hand at chewing gum? People have been chewing gum for medicinal purposes and to freshen their mouths for at least 5,000 years. Read on to learn how to make chewing gum three...
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Chewing gum has been around in commercial form for over a century. Even as far back at 5,000 years ago the act of chewing tree sap has been common in the americas.
Although there were vending machines for stick or block shaped gum as early as 1888, the first machines to carry actual gumballs were not seen until 1907 (probably released first by the Thomas Adams Gum Co. in the United States). Patented in 1923, the Norris Manufacturing Company produced their "Master" line of chrome gumball machines during the 1930s.
Gumballs are produced in a variety of sizes and flavors. The amount of calories in a gumball depends on these factors. A medium-sized gumball can have 20 calories while sugar-free gumballs can have five calories. In a 1999 study published by "The New England Journal of Medicine," researchers found that chewing gum for 12 minutes could burn 11 calories.
The world's first bubble gum is Dubble Bubble. It was invented in 1928 by Walter E. Diemer-an accountant at Fleer Company. After his retirement, Diemer admitted that the recipe was discovered by accident. The company founder, Frank Fleer in 1906, attempted to create a chewing gum which he called Blibber Blubber.