Chewing Gum Arms Race

This week’s mission: a green tea cure-all and gum with a one-two flavor punch.

Does Gum Really Take Seven Years to Digest?

It sounds like a digestive impossibility.

10 Japanese Sweets

Venture beyond M&M’s.

What the Hell Is Ice Cream Soft Candy?

This week’s mission: Down-market candy gets a makeover, and a really bad idea for brand extension.

Country Breakfast Burrito and Hot Tamales Ice

This week’s mission: a burrito containing everything but pancakes, and a mint revamp of an old-school candy.

Secrets of the Chip Aisle

The differences between “kettle-cooked” and standard potato chips; olestra and MSG.

10 Exotic Sweeteners

Go beyond white sugar.

Gum chewers, you have a favorite brand of chewing gum? I’m partial to Trident Bubble Gum and Dentyne Cinammon Ice. And you?

It’s a never-ending gob-stopper of a deal, creating the world’s largest candy company.

If Mario Batali made a chewing gum, what would it taste like?

Special summer flavors to chew over.

New York magazine unpacks a gum taste test starring wd-50’s Wylie Dufresne.

Okay, this might be weird, but: I chew a fair amount of gum, but I’m not really happy with the idea of putting lots of sugar or artificial sweeteners in my mouth every day. And besides, the flavor is always gone in a few...

This barely qualifies as a food topic, I understand that, and if I’m violating any rule, I apologize. Regarding Airwaves Gum, I got completely addicted to the stuff when on a co-op term in England last year. For the life of...

I bought this small case of Black Black (caffeinated) chewing gum from Japan a while back and wanted to get a refill of it. Inside the plastic container are small, hard, rectangle pieces of black black gum (not sticks). I was...