Untapped Reserves: chewing gum

From ancient times to cleanse the plaque on the teeth and fresh breath giving our ancestors chewed different materials that mimic modern chewing gum. The prototype consisted of gum beeswax, resin or rubber trees. Later resourceful entrepreneurs have finished natural composition to include sugar and flavorings, and in 1848 launched the first commercial production of chewing gum.

Modern chewing gum consists of a flexible framework as well as a variety of flavors and food additives. It is well known that chewing gum helps cleanse the teeth and provides a kind of massage the gums, but few people know that chewing gum can also perform other functions. Like many things, it has its own culinary products hidden reserve, which can be useful in many situations.

Repellent





Menthol is often present in the chewing gum can not only freshen your breath, but also scare away some insects. The substance is a potent natural repellent smell which can not tolerate certain types of beetles, cockroaches and silkworm.

Medication



It is necessary to treat heartburn others, special medications, but if it so happens that heartburn caught at the wrong time, and improvised only gum, then to deal with heartburn, you can use it. Chewing helps alleviate the pain of heartburn, himself salivation process cleanses the stomach and dilutes the gastric juice.

Repair



Among other things, the chewing gum composition includes a polymer or rubber base. This chewing rubber component may come in handy when something suddenly went wrong, and it's something you want to quickly fix it. In this case, the gum can be used as a temporary measure to repair a small, lightweight items like glasses.

Fire

If by chance you have to go "test" - a fire without matches or lighters, you will easily cope with this task, throw you in advance in your backpack plate gum and battery. Wrap the foil with a paper cover should be cut in a certain way, and then attach it to the ends of the battery.

Bait



In an extreme case, when more than that to catch as bait can get chewing gum. Experienced fishermen claim that chewing gum is literally a couple of minutes excellent carp bite. Foil from the plate can be adapted for trolling.

Patch



Natural or synthetic polymer substrate used for the gum, often used for the manufacture of the inner chambers of bicycle wheels. So in the field, when choosing not particularly necessary, chewing gum - will fit perfectly for making a temporary patch. For this purpose it is necessary to priklepit the puncture site, and the top strip of tape to stick or tape.

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