Stride gum can you eat the paper

It tastes awful adn it makes the gum hard and it hurts my cracked tooth! I always leave the wrapper on, I'm not sure if it makes it taste any different but it seems to make it last longer.

After like 5 minutes of chewing you cant even tell its there it just blends in with the gum. I told my girlfriend it was 5 gum and she tried eating the wrapper which is the type of foil. Posted: May 11, at There is nothing wrong with it, but you might as well eat the receipt for the gum as well. Its just plain stupid. Ask Them Here. Where did this come from? I know you can eat the inner rice paper wrapper of Botan Rice Candy , but chew the wrapper of a gum?

I dismissed it as the ravings of a lunatic Candy Addict, but then we kept getting more and more comments sparking a debate on the chewableness of the wrappers. We currently have 64 comments on that article — most of them dealing with whether or not you can chew the wrapper.

At the time of this writing, even the Stride Gum wikipedia page says the wrappers are made of rice paper and can be eaten. So, I finally decided to do something about this. I contacted Cadbury-Adams, the makers of Stride, to get to the bottom of this.

While Stride r gum is designed to be chewed for a ridiculously long time, our gum wrappers are not. All of our gum wrappers are made with materials that comply with FDA regulations for food contact materials; however, none of our chewing gum wrappers are designed to be ingested.

Should you have any questions or concerns about your children ingesting gum wrappers, please contact your doctor or other health care professional. So, there you go. Myth debunked.

Can you chew the Stride gum wrappers? Should you chew the Stride Gum wrapper? The official word says no. Just enjoy the gum as they intended it — wrapper-free!

That reminds me of Zebra Stripes gum — we used to chew the whole stick — wrapper and all when we were kids. I tried it once or twice and quickly learned that paper is not so much yummy compared to gum itself.

Candy Addict has a few links in Wikipedia : —Brian. So has there ever been a stick of gum that was made with edible wrapper, and intended to be chewed that way? There are some packing peanuts you can eat….

Pop the suckers in your mouth and they dissolve. Megan, what are you doing? LOL that is why I am here. I am chewing a piece of the new flavor now. It kindof ruins it i guess. But its fun. Thank God for this website. A lady at work had us all eating the wrapper. I have since passed this information onto her and she has stopped telling people it is ok to eat the wrapper.

I think that when you chew the gum and the wrapper together. The wrapper is still there and it gives the gum a more thick texture. The number is Dude do you sawllow gum? I had heard about it on the news and I told all my friends that the stride gum wrappers were edible and most of them decided to investigate the matter and ate the gum wrapper and all. Recently, me and a few of my friends were debating on the fact that the wrappers were edible and decided to research it.

When we read this article we were shocked because we had informed half the people in our high school that they could eat the wrapper and the news spread like wildfire.

Now, with the new information I have obtained, I will now have to spread the word about the wrappers being edible but not being recommened for ingestion. Thank you for posting the article answering the question to this infamous myth.

The popular Trident gum was invented and released on the markey in From what we do at my school, yes in fact. Same with Trident gum wrappers, my friends have told me it adds to the gum. I wouldn't recommend it It gives more gum. Trident last longer than 5 Gum. Log in.

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