Chewing Gum Takes 7 Years To Digest?

[Mint]

I always buy orbit complete and eat all of the chewys (14) and tend to swallow them. It's like I put them in and when the taste starts to go I can't resist myself to swallow. Does anyone know how long it takes to digest because my mates where saying "it will stay in your body for 7 years" and one said "they don't get any further than your throat". So I would like to know the truth about them.

Everytime I do it I can't stop farting for the rest of the day lol! The packets do have "excessive consumption may cause laxative effects" written on them.

Thanks.

[Hazza]

LOLZ @ U.

[Describe]

1. Digests like normal food.
2. There is no real chance of it sticking in your throat or whatever.

[British]

ur gunna crap urself

[Ohirian]

They take longer than normal food but not seven years.
It won't stick to your throat either

[Mint]

ur gunna crap urself

Just had some sloppy disaster, all over the inside bowl of the toilet. Yumm.

Thinking about it, I remember my PE teacher telling me that they take 2 years to digest and he would know better than most people.

[Ollyoaks]

Idk how long but you should only chew gum an hour before/after food because it's telling your brain that you're chewing so it thinks you're gonna get food so it produces that acidy stuff to digest the food & cos theres no food going in the acids just laying in your stomach & eventually you get stomach ulcers. lovely.

[Mint]

Idk how long but you should only chew gum an hour before/after food because it's telling your brain that you're chewing so it thinks you're gonna get food so it produces that acidy stuff to digest the food & cos theres no food going in the acids just laying in your stomach & eventually you get stomach ulcers. lovely.

With science being my strongest subject I already knew that chewing gum tricks your mind into thinking that your swallowing food and your not but I definetly didn't know that it can cause ulcers. :S I do swallow anyway so I shouldn't have to worry about getting an ulcer lol.

[darkchicken101]

It passes through you in the same amout of time anything else does:

http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/chewgum.asp

[Ollyoaks]

With science being my strongest subject I already knew that chewing gum tricks your mind into thinking that your swallowing food and your not but I definetly didn't know that it can cause ulcers. :S I do swallow anyway so I shouldn't have to worry about getting an ulcer lol.

Yup, can cause ulcers lol. You can get ulcers from all sorts of stuff, there nothing rly. just cause rly bad heartburn like all the time ):