Bubble gum flavor half-life
Posted in Rants/Raves on 10/29/2007 06:15 am by enjanerdWhile watching the World Series last week, Ian and I got into a discussion about the wad of gum that Terry Francona was working on. I hypothesized that he just kept adding a new piece of gum every time the flavor started to fade. If that’s the case though, how often does he add a new piece of gum? Would it make more sense to take the old piece out before adding the new piece? Is there still flavor left in the old piece when he adds the new one? Probably. So, what is the half-life of bubble gum flavor, not in terms of time, but in terms of chews? How many chews does it take to integrate a new piece of gum into the growing tasteless mass? Does it depend on the individual’s saliva pH? What would it be on average?
It seems like this is along the same genre as how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop. There are tons of people who have done experiments to determine this. They aren’t all scientific or result in repeatable conclusions. But they have been attempted. I looked up bubble gum flavor half-life, and there have been no
Hidalgo buy studies on this scientific or otherwise. There is no way we’re the only ones who have thought to question the long-lasting flavor of gum. Shouldn’t the gum companies have studies to back up their claims that their gum has longer-lasting flavor than the competition? I have so Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix hd many questions that need to be answered.
EDIT: Oh, wait! I found something. A blog post mentioning a coworker’s daughter doing an experiment. Where are the results?? Now I feel like I need to go troll high school science fairs to find the answer to this. They’ll have to be just the individual school fairs though, because I don’t think this would make it past the first round. I don’t even chew gum. Why am I so obsessed?