nothing's As chewy

Did you know …

That the active ingredient in chewing gum (the one that makes it chew) is arsenic? It’s true!

Of course, we all know that arsenic is a deadly poison on its own, but it’s pretty much harmless in the gum compound. In the same way that chlorine gas would form hydrochloric acid in your lungs and kill you and metallic sodium would explode your head on contact with saliva, but together they just make your food taste better, arsenic alone would cause fatal organ failure, but in gum it just makes things chewy and gives you tooth cancer.

So chew on, gumchews, and know that science is protecting you!