# what happends to  the bubble gum?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happends-to-the-bubble-gum/96921>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 4, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happends-to-the-bubble-gum/96921 "2001-12-04T23:34:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9c0ed/32.png) [@olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/olive)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happends-to-the-bubble-gum/96921/1 "2001-12-04T23:34:24Z")

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my boyfriend swallows him chewing/bubble gum all the time. i heard past rumors of how this digests, i was curious to know the real answer.

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**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happends-to-the-bubble-gum/96921/2 "2001-12-05T00:01:54Z")

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Mu understanding is that is usually passes though the system without any problems, and takes out some stuff with it, if you get my drift… It doesn’t sit dormant in the body for years. Of course, swallowing too much could cause some troubles in certain conditions, so just don’t swallow a lot of it is the lesson here I suppose…

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**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happends-to-the-bubble-gum/96921/3 "2001-12-05T00:02:21Z")

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It goes out the same way as any other indigestible stuff you swallow. Won’t hurt anything.

Here’s [Cecil’s brief column](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_059.html) on the matter.

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**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happends-to-the-bubble-gum/96921/4 "2001-12-05T00:45:47Z")

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And no, swallowing a large hunk of bubble gum will not result in bubble-blowing taking place when the gum decides to exit the body. But that huge hunk of gum will stay in one big blob until the very end. So just be careful.

😃