Today i add one more natural gum to the list. This is the one from the Dutch company BenBits. Although this company has a long history promoting healthy gums, I have learned only recently about this natural chewing gum.
Blister with 9 pieces of coated gum with a slight brownish color. It uses, of course, natural ingredients
It’s been a while that I do not mention Caffeine gum because maybe it is not as trendy as it used to be a few years ago. However, I came across the caffeinated version of one of the top brand worldwide: Airwaves, by Mars/Wrigley. In particular, I have in front of me a pack of nice hexagonal shape (quite unusual!!) coated pieces of caffein gum. Wrigley uses not only the brand “Airwaves” but also the classic “Alert Gum” to market its gum with Caffein.
Related to this subject I found two interesting websites that I’d like to share with you:
Let me introduce to you another natural gum containing CBD. This comes from Lithuania and it is made by the company ENDOCA, which specializes in all types and formats for the CBD.
It comes with carton boxes with 10 individually wrapped gums inside. The pieces are not coated and have a brown color, distinctive of the natural gum base that they are made of.
Each gum contains 15mg of CBD.
The company emphasizes a lot the Natural claim in their marketing.
You can learn more in their website www.endoca.com
The company TWO WISE CHIMPS, from UK, presents natural chewing gums in combination with a few different concepts:
Again , this goes in the direction that I have already commented in the past: CBD, Natural gum base… and it is presented in sleeved blisters with 9 pieces of coated pellets each one.
The website is www.twowisechimps.co.uk
Another of the big trends nowadays, not only when talking about chewing gum, but also in the food industry and even further, is the “natural” claim.
In ISM’20 I found CHEWSY (www.chewsygum.com). Thus gum in produced in China by a UK-based company. It claims that contains only xylitol as sweetener (no sugar, no aspartame) and that it is made using natural gum base (“plastic-free gum base” as they define it). I have some personal issues though, accepting the claim of “biodegradable”. The fact of being natural does not bring automatically the biodegradability. But it would be great if the product really degrades after some short period of time. Please allow me to be a bit skeptical on this matter because the products that have been launched in the market with this claim, have not really succeeded, for one reason or the other.
In any case, good proposal that deserves to be followed, which I will do with interest.
This year I visited ISM, as I do since 1997, and once again it has been a source of new discoveries. As a passionate person for functional gums I find in this great exhibition all what i need to satisfy this passion.
Here I want to show you one product that goes in the direction of the CBD trend. Euphoria is the Czech brand and they offer a very broad range of products (chocolate, candy, muffin, tea,…) containing Cannabis. In the case of chewing gum, it is predented in zip-bags containing 3 coated pieces of gum each. It is also presented in blisters with a cardboard sleeve. Each blister contains 12 pieces if coated gum and each piece contains 18mg of CBD (there is another version with 12mg per piece).
Nice product, indeed, that taps into this emerging category with somehow blurred lines in terms of legislation.
You can see it here.
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