Chewing gum is a soft, cohesive substance designed to be chewed without being swallowed. Modern chewing gum is composed of gum base, sweeteners, softeners/plasticizers...
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The sale of chewing gum in Singapore has been illegal since 1992. Some motivations for the ban included stopping the placement of used chewing gum in inappropriate...
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level of chewing tobacco use. Globally it contributes to 650,000 deaths each year. Chewing tobacco is sold in several different varieties. Chewing tobacco...
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Betel nut chewing, also called betel quid chewing or areca nut chewing, is a practice in which areca nuts (also called "betel nuts") are chewed together...
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Bubble gum (category Chewing gum)
gum (or bubblegum) is a type of chewing gum, designed to be inflated out of the mouth as a bubble. In modern chewing gum, if natural rubber such as chicle...
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Benjamin Chew (November 19, 1722 – January 20, 1810) was an American lawyer and judge who served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Province...
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nut chewing is very popular, but spitting is frowned upon and regarded as an unrefined, repulsive way of chewing. Usually, people prefer to chew thin...
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Cud (redirect from Cud-chewing)
portion of food that returns from a ruminant's stomach to the mouth to be chewed for the second time. More precisely, it is a bolus of semi-degraded food...
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Black Jack (gum) (redirect from Black jack chewing gum)
Black Jack is an aniseed-flavored chewing gum manufactured by the American company, Gerrit J. Verburg Co. In 1869, exiled former Mexican president and...
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one of the most dangerous forms of chewing tobacco. It comprises approximately 95% areca nut by weight and is chewed for 10–20 minutes when placed in the...
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prized it for its subtle flavor and high sugar content. The word is used in the Americas and Spain to refer to chewing gum, chicle being a common term for...
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Areca catechu (section Betel nut chewing)
Chewing areca nut is a cause of oral submucous fibrosis, a premalignant lesion which frequently progresses to mouth cancer. The practice of chewing areca...
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activity of chewing its leaves is called "lekhazen" (Hebrew: לכזן). The process of chewing the Gat can take up to several hours. Some chew the Gat in a...
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Avenue South in Seattle's Chinatown-International District (CID). Chew attended Franklin High School and the University of Washington. At the university, he...
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Morsicatio buccarum (redirect from Chronic cheek chewing)
lining of the inside of the cheek within the mouth), caused by repetitive chewing, biting, or nibbling. The lesions are located on the mucosa, usually bilaterally...
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Pagophagia (redirect from Chewing ice)
for pagophagia is intense cravings for chewing ice. Those with pagophagia will find themselves constantly chewing on ice cubes, shaved ice or even frost...
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Nail biting (redirect from Fingernail chewing)
with bruxism (tooth clenching and grinding), and other habits such as pen chewing and cheek biting. In children nail biting most typically co-occurs with...
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often found on or near termite mounds in old fields. Common names: African chewing gum, goron tula, snot apple, tree hibiscus, mutohwe (Shona), nkole (Sri...
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The Chew Valley is an affluent area in North Somerset, England, named after the River Chew, which rises at Chewton Mendip, and joins the River Avon at...
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Chew Magna is a village and civil parish within the Chew Valley in the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset, in the ceremonial county of Somerset...
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Ruminant (redirect from Chewing the cud)
capacity that gives them the ability to consume feed rapidly and complete the chewing process later. This is known as rumination, which consists of the regurgitation...
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Masseter muscle (redirect from Chewing muscles)
only in mammals, it is particularly powerful in herbivores to facilitate chewing of plant matter. The most obvious muscle of mastication is the masseter...
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John the Conqueror (redirect from High John the Conqueroo)
Dixie Love Oil. "Chewing John" is galangal, Alpinia galanga, a member of the ginger family. This is chewed much as chewing tobacco is chewed, to sweeten the...
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Premastication (redirect from Pre-chewing)
Premastication, pre-chewing, or kiss feeding is the act of chewing food for the purpose of physically breaking it down in order to feed another that is...
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Chews were first introduced in 1917. The candies were originally developed for use by the U.S. military as a ration bar during World War I. The high-energy...
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One of the earliest uses of mastic was as chewing gum. Mastic (מסטיק) is the colloquial Hebrew word for chewing gum.[citation needed] Some scholars identify...
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diets are combined with exercise. Chewing gum has been speculated as a "negative-calorie food"; A study on chewing gum reported mastication burns roughly...
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The GM High Feature engine (also known as the HFV6, and including the 3600 LY7 and derivative LP1) is a family of modern DOHC V6 engines produced by General...
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