Fact or Fiction?: Chewing Gum Takes Seven Years to Digest

Unsurprisingly, perhaps, the human body cannot do much with these rubbery concoctions, resilient. Chewing gum "is pretty immune to the digestive process," Milov says. "It probably passes through slower than most foodstuffs, but eventually the normal housekeeping waves in the digestive tract will sort of push it through, and it will come out pretty unmolested."

Fact or Fiction?: Chewing Gum Takes Seven Years to Digest: Scientific American

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