I’ve always been a huge fan of chewing gum ever since I was young. But lately at work, I am literally … a chewing-gum fiend. I go through boxes of chewing gum like nobody’s business! My favourite continues to be Wrigley’s Excel Polar Ice.
Oddly enough, I could only find this picture online of it. It’s the Canadian equivalent line of the American counterpart called “Eclipse”.
Just earlier this week, a colleague and friend at work introduced a type of gum produced in Finland under the merchandising line of Muumi (quite the cute troll that looks like a hippo). The name is actually anglicized and changed to Moomin because apparently anglophones or allophones have too much difficulty pronouncing it? Odd n’est-ce pas? What my friend explained to me was quite intriguing as I had a growing concern to the fact that I could not easily find a sugar-free gum that did not contain aspartame. What was good about the Finnish-produced gum was that it utilized Xylitol, a natural sweetener rather than aspartame which is a synthetically produced sweetener that can cause cancer. Normally I wouldn’t be concerned due to the amount that is used per piece of gum but since I chew gum on a very frequent and consistent basis, I figure I should find a healthier solution to my chewing gum needs. If you are wondering why I chew gum frequently, it helps reduce my allergy symptoms (i.e. coughing, sneezing, stuffy nose, etc.)
As I was surfing around the web, I ran across ElimiTaste, a company that claims to produce high-quality sugar-free and aspartame-free gum. It also claims that it produces gum with 100% xylitol. Well, I put in an order to taste-test this gum and will let you know how good it really is!
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