One day Adams noticed a girl chewing a paraffin-based gum and remembered what General Santa Anna had chewed the very substance in which he was trying to turn into rubber. This rediscovery of what the Mayans had known over one thousand years earlier revolutionized the manufacture of chewing gum. .
In-the early 1880s, two brothers, Henry and Frank Fleer, began experimenting with chicle, the sticky substance found inside a sapodilla tree. Henry Fleer covered the tasteless chicle with a sugary white coating and name his invention "Chiclets." Meanwhile, brother Frank put together a recipe for the worlds first bubble gum, originally called "Blibber Blubber Bubble Gum." Though popular in their neighborhood, the Fleer's gum was never marketed or perfected and thus never took off.
In 1848, the Curtis brother were working on the same product in Maine. Using a Franklin stove and pure spruce tree resin, the brother sold chewing gum for the first time in history, with an asking price of one penny for every two hunks. In 1850, the brothers left for Maine to work on their gum recipe. Adding paraffin and flavoring to their already popular concoction, the brothers opened the first major gum manufacturing plant, the Curtis Chewing Gum Factory. .
Sweetened paraffin was succeeded the spruce gum mainly because it was somewhat safer to chew and less toxic to the digestive system. The paraffin that was chewed typically after dinner until 1870. The sweet juice extracted from the sapodilla tree that grows in the Central American jungles was used to product chicle. Chicle is the main ingredient that makes gum what it is today. .
By 1939, it was concluded that gum was one of the best treats to relax people and improve stability. The constant chewing was concluded to increase saliva and break down food acids to aid in digestion. .
As more and more manufacturers entered the chewing gum market, the popular substance began to be marketing different ways.
