• Question: Does it actually take 7 years to digest chewing gum?

    Asked by to Daren, Lynne, Phillip, Simon on 21 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      anon answered on 21 Jun 2014:

      No, this is another myth, according to this article here:
      http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-chewing-gum-takes-seven-years-to-digest/
      They say that they’ve looked into loads of people’s stomachs and seen very little evidence of chewing gum remaining. It will take longer for it to pass through your system than other foods because you can’t actually digest it, but it will get pushed through by other things.

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      Daren Fearon answered on 21 Jun 2014:

      I wouldn’t like to be the scientists who tested this hypothesis by searching through poo to find gum!

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