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This gum is the perfect example of how most xylitol chewing gums that I’ve tasted in the past seem to work. Xylitol is a sugar substitute that some have claimed is actually good for your teeth. I’ve heard claims like this before, so I’m a little skeptical when I hear the idea of fake sugar that’s actually healthy for you. Ignoring the “health benefits”, I will say that xylitol does generally taste pretty good. It has a fairly sweet flavour, without the metallic flavour you sometimes get from other sweeteners.
As far as using it in gum, I find that xylitol has a strange effect. I find that xylitol gum is often really sweet when you first start chewing it, then about a minute or two after it’s been in your mouth, the sweetness is almost completely gone. Some might even find that the first few minutes is too sweet tasting, but I’m okay with it. The strange thing that xylitol gum does to me, and this gum is a great example, is it highlights how much you don’t need sugar to enjoy gum. You don’t even really need a sweetener. I thing I would enjoy this gum just as much without any sweet flavour at all.
After the first few minutes this gum just tasted like mint, with no sweetness to balance it out. It was closer to chewing on a mint leaf than it was to chewing mint gum flavour wise. I really enjoy the flavour of mint without any kind of sweet flavour, it kind of reminds me of drinking mint tea. So while this package advertises that it uses xylitol, I really think the highlight is the fact that the sweet flavour goes away quickly and you’re left with a really nice pure mint flavour.
I’m not sure about the science of xylitol, but it seems like a sweetener that doesn’t keep its sweet in gum very long. As a hard candy it stays sweeter much longer. Having said that, it did introduce me to a new idea, unsweetened gum.
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