BBC Science Focus writes that historically, gum was made from the chewy sap of the Sapodilla tree. However nowadays, they say ...

For most people, swallowing gum shouldn’t have any side effects unless you have swallowed a lot of it. Learn more about what gum is and what it does to your body.

I don’t know when the sapodilla tree at the café in Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden was planted. But since the 1970s, I’ve enjoyed numerous lunches under its dense, spreading canopy.

For most people, swallowing gum shouldn’t have any side effects unless you have swallowed a lot of it. Learn more about what gum is and what it does to your body.

Somewhere between 9,500 and 9,900 years ago, three Scandinavian teenagers were hanging out, chewing gum after a meal. Specifically, they were chewing pitch or tar made from the bark of birch trees.

How long will the gum stay there? There is a common notion that it will sit in your stomach for seven years after being swallowed. Not true. “It’s an old wives’ tale,” said Simon Travis ...

For most people, swallowing gum shouldn’t have any side effects unless you have swallowed a lot of it. Learn more about what gum is and what it does to your body.

(CNN) — If you’re one of many people who have swallowed a whole piece of chewing gum by accident, one question likely popped in your head right after that startling sensation.

Does gum really sit in the stomach for 7 years? (CNN) — If you’re one of many people who have swallowed a whole piece of chewing gum by accident, one question likely popped in your head right ...