Xanthan gum is a common food and drug additive. It’s a type of carbohydrate made by bacteria called Xanthomonas campestris. During fermentation, the bacteria break down sugars and produce a ...

Yum! Eventually most of the sweetener and flavoring slide down your throat with your saliva and the great taste becomes a memory. Gum base does not dissolve in saliva. This is why you lose the flavor, ...

The only thing worse than missing out on candy on Halloween night is getting your least favorite candy. We're ranking the ...

In the 2000 movie Bounce, Gwyneth Paltrow's character, Abby, explains that she really isn't a smoker at heart, but has started puffing on cigarettes to help her get off the nicotine gum to which ...

Furrer commented, “Is it chalk? Is it gum? Is it a tasteless chalky Starburst? I don’t know!” Unlike bars, not all cyclists use nutritional gels for their rides. Bike racers often favor gels because ...

We'll call this one partly true, but chalk up the "never sicker" part mostly ... Vreeman, authors of "Don't Swallow Your Gum!: Myths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health." ...

The face mask is carved from wood. The outer surface of the cartonnage is covered in gesso, a mixture of gum and chalk powder and is painted in natural pigments using gum as a binder. The ...

It promises to prevent dental caries, spongy gum, bleeding, bad breath and pyorrhoea. This 100 percent vegan toothpaste doesn’t have any artificial flavour, chalk powder or gelatin, which makes it ...

Substances commonly eaten by people with pica include paper, soap, hair, gum, ice, paint, pebbles, soil, and chalk. People with pica do not typically have an aversion to food in general.

This weekend, Chalk the Block returns for its annual colorful, fun, family-friendly event in Downtown El Paso. The event started in 2008 with 12 participating artists as a one-day sidewalk chalk ...

Some of our most beautiful rivers are ‘chalk streams’. Their pure, clear, constant water from underground chalk aquifers and springs, flowing across flinty gravel beds, make them perfect sources of ...

Billy Corgan is a guitar god, he’ll have you know. In a recent interview with Guitar World, the Smashing Pumpkins mastermind complains that he doesn’t get nearly enough recognition when listicles of ...