Why does chewing gum need to be kosher certified?

hello everybody we're discussing chewing gum and what the story is with chewing gum many people think that since chewing gum isn't being swallowed that it's not really food I would like to point out that most of us who've enjoyed chewing gum in the past have found ourselves chewing it for a while and then spitting it out and when do we decide to spit it out usually when the flavor left well where did the flavor go the answer is you swallowed it and that's the part of chewing gum that we're interested in discussing in terms of its kosher supervision the flavors involved with it in addition to the other aspects of chewing gum that could have kosher concerns chewing gum is both basically made of two different aspects the flavor aspect that's going to make it taste like whatever it is you want it to taste like and the texture in terms of The Taste there's a few different kosher concerns that one has to address first of all there are flavors that are used in there and flavors can often be made from non- koser components second concern is that it's often sweetened and texturized slightly also with glycerin sometimes it's called glycerol glycerin is a fat derived ingredient which is a 50/50 chance whether it's animal fat or vegetable fat that's in terms of the taste in terms of the texture texture from chewing gum is primarily come from gum base gum base the cot of fed Federal Regulations tells us has a list of different masticatory substances that can qualify to be used as a gum base and they do not need to be listed on the chewing gum that means they could basically put whatever they want that's a masticatory substance something appropriate for chewing gum and they don't need to list it one specific example that the code of ftig elevations lists is steric acid which again it's a 50/50 chance whether it's animal drive or vegetable drive as such we can't honestly recommend that you take a chewing gum that doesn't have co-o supervision so if you're looking for a chewing gum look for one with an O you certification and that's something you could chew on