Xylitol Syrup Helps to Prevent Childhood Tooth Decay

One hundred and forty years ago this December, an Ohio dentist named William Sample received the first patent on chewing gum. His recipe: rubber, sugar, licorice, and charcoal. Although Sample never actively pursued the patent, many subsequently wiled away a precious hour adding and subtracting ingredients to his crude, chewy concoction. Among them was Walter Dierner, an accountant in the 1920s for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia. When the 23-year-old Dierner wasn’t crunching numbers, he dabbled on the side with his homespun chewing gum recipes. One day Dierner got his latest recipe wrong and “ended up with something with bubbles.” As Dierner recalled, his colleagues at Fleer recognized the novelty of “bubble gum” and launched plans to manufacture it. To show just how different bubble gum was from regular chewing gum, Dierner and company decided to give it a different look. The men dashed off to find a bottle of food coloring to do the trick, and by chance the only one to be found in the entire factory was pink. The rest is history.

For complete article: http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/Research/ResearchResults/ScienceBriefs/Archive/SNIB2009/July/Xylitol.htm

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