Bubble gum is a popular type of
sticky and elastic confectionery that is designed for blowing bubbles.
To make bubblegum, chewing gum base, sugar, softeners, flavorings and
colors are used. Gum base that is made from rosins puts the chew in
regular chewing gum and the bubble in bubble gum. For keeping the gum
soft and chewable, softeners are used which are refined vegetable oil
products. Sugar and corn sweeteners are added to give the
sweet taste. For enhancing the taste of chewing gum various types of fruit
flavors are added.
Features
Bubble gums are made by bubblegum machine whose feature are as follows :
- All the ingredients necessary for the production of chewing gum
are mixed together in a steam heated or electric mixture to produce
gum-base.
- The gum based so produced are cooled in the cooling trays. After
taking the shape in the trays, gum base is washed with water.
- Liquid glucose, sorbitol and gum based slabs are mixed together
in a mixture.
- Chewing gum is then fed into rope extruder where rope of
chewing gum is made.
- The rope which is soft contains lot of moistures. To remove
moistures rope is kept in the cooled room for some time.
- The rope when hardened is continuously fed into cut and wrap
machine where bubblegum is given proper shape of appropriate size
and then finally wrapped.
