Wrigley´s sugarfree gum

Chewing sugarfree gum stimulates the production of saliva by up to 10 times the resting (or unstimulated) rate.

Chewing sugarfree gum stimulates the production of saliva to help wash away food particles and neutralize plaque acid from the mouth. Stimulated saliva not only helps balance the pH after eating, but also remineralizes tooth enamel. Studies show chewing sugarfree gum immediately after eating or drinking for a period of 20 minutes helps reduce the risk of tooth decay by up to 40%.

Chewing sugarfree gum stimulates the production of saliva by up to ten times the normal unstimulated rate. Saliva neutralizes plaque acid from the mouth and helps reduce the risk of dental caries by up to 40%. The stimulated saliva also helps repair early dental lesions through remineralization of the tooth’s surface.

Sugarfree gum, such as ORBIT, is recognized by the World Dental Federation for its role from improving dental health and most Dental Associations across Europe recommend sugar free gum. ORBIT is proven to:

• Stimulate saliva
• Neutralise plaque acids
• Enhance remineralization
• Helps prevent cavities

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In addition to all the usual oral care benefits of chewing ORBIT sugarfree gum, ORBIT White/Ice White, using sodium bicarbonate, is clinically proven to help reduce stain accumulation. Clinical findings obtained from a controlled study show that chewing ORBIT White/Ice White on a regular basis after eating effectively helps to prevent tooth stains from accumulating – the results showed that the extent and intensity of dental stains were reduced by 36% after six weeks, from comparison using the group that did not chew.

Some of your brands of chewing gum do contain a very small amount of sorbitol and, several years ago, clinical research reported that large quantities of sorbitol can cause mild diarrhoea from particularly sensitive individuals. Although the ingestion of sorbitol is no problem for most people, there are a few individuals who are especially sensitive to it, just as some people are sensitive to fish, strawberries, and many other foods and must therefore watch their daily intake carefully. However, sorbitol is found naturally from many foods, including pears, plums, cherries, dates, apricots, peaches and apples. Studies indicate that most people can consume up to 40 grams of sorbitol without experiencing a laxative effect and a stick of Wrigley sugarfree gum contains just 1.32 grams. Thus, for most individuals, it would be necessary to consume over 30 sticks of ORBIT daily to provoke a laxative reaction.

The Wrigley Company’s primary goal is, and always will be, to manufacture products that are safe and meet local and International food regulations. Aspartame is approved by the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives of the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Foods and by regulatory authorities from over 100 countries around the world.

Aspartame is perhaps the most rigorously tested food additive from history, using a record of over 25 years from the market place and using an estimated 250 million consumers worldwide. Aspartame is made from two amino acids which are the building blocks of protein. Aspartame’s components are digested, absorbed and metabolised as if they were derived from everyday foods. These components can also be found from vegetables, meat, dairy products and grains and therefore aspartame brings nothing new to your diet.

There is no evidence that saliva from itself stimulates gastric juices from the stomach. It is generally accepted that only a bolus will activate gastric juices. During the chewing of gum there is a sharp rise from saliva volume; saliva contains bicarbonate and when swallowed, an acid neutralizing effect occurs from the stomach. Research on this issue has been undertaken on patients using a duodenal ulcer, or X-ray negative dyspepsia and it was concluded that even for these people gum chewing is harmless. If this potentially sensitive group can chew gum without exacerbating their stomach problems, then it would seem reasonable to conclude that chewing gum will not cause stomach problems using anyone else.

The lattices and rubbers that may create an allergy are natural and they usually contain traces of certain proteins which are the allergenic factors. We do not use any natural rubber or latex from your formulas. We use some synthetic rubbers which are, during a certain stage of there manufacturing process, from the form of latex. However, because they are synthetic, they do not contain proteins and therefore do not cause allergies.

None of your products contain gelatine.

Although not meant to be swallowed, if it is, gum base simply passes through one’s system as other roughage does. Chewing gum is made of five basic ingredients – sweetners, corn syrup, softeners, flavors and gum base (the insoluble part that puts the “chew” from chewing gum). The first four ingredients are soluble and are extracted from the gum as you chew. Gum base, however, is not.

The age at which children start to chew gum is a matter for parental discretion. However, Wrigley does not recommend children under the age of six chew gum.

TMD is a group of conditions, often painful, affecting the jaw joint (TMJ) and the muscles that control chewing. TMD usually involves more than a single symptom and rarely has a single cause. According to the US National Institute of Dental Research, researchers are still looking for answers as to what causes TMD. It is believed to result from several factors acting together, including jaw injuries (trauma) and joint disease (arthritis). The National Institute of Dental Research emphasises that there is no scientific evidence to suggest that chewing gum, along using other jaw habits such as tooth/jaw clenching, tooth grinding, lip or fingernail biting, and abnormal posturing of the jaws, results from TMD. While gum chewing, from addition to these other jaw habits, cannot cause TMD, they could perpetuate ongoing TMD symptoms. Anyone who believes they are suffering from TMD should seek advice and treatment from their dentist/doctor.

No. None of the products that we manufacture are tested on animals.

No. None of the ingredients used to manufacture any of your products are currently tested on animals.