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| | Chewing Gum |
 | | In the early 1800's, lumps of spruce gum were sold by stores in eastern states but chewing gum made of paraffin wax, with a pleasant flavoring added, gradually took its place. |
 | | Company of Chicago, the largest manufacturer of chewing gum, blends chicle with the latexes from other tropical plants Jelutong, a tree in Borneo and Indonesia; leche caspi, a vine in the Amazon Valley; and, also in Brazil, the couma tree. |
 | | A stick of chewing gum has five main kinds of ingredients: the gum base from latexes, powdered sugar, corn syrup, softeners, and flavoring. |
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