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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Interesting. Always thought chewing gum was more like when you made "plastic" out of the caesin in milk.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

You can buy chewing gum made from natural materials but it's not the norm. Most chewing gum is made from mineral oil.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Also, chemically they are identical. Plastic made of a plant is still a plastic.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Nah it's just rubbery dried chicle sap, no chemical refining like with oil

This is what it looks like

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I can almost taste the six seconds the flavor added to that will last!

Five minutes of microplastics or a blink of flavor? Answer might just be no gum :(

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah no idea why this is so hard to achieve but it's a very noticeable difference.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yes really, still a polymer: it forms polyisoprene upon drying. You also find the stuff (synthesised from oil, yes, but chemically indistinguishable) in tires and condoms.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's a different plant

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Does not matter. All these natural rubbers are very similar in how they work, you can find a paper on the polymerization in chicle here if you don't believe me.

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