How does gum have calories if we don’t actually eat it?

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How does gum have calories if we don’t actually eat it?

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Pour a bunch of sugar on a piece of paper. Put the sugar and paper in your mouth and chew it. Once you don’t taste any more sugar, spit the paper out. Do you think you just consumed some calories even though you didn’t eat any paper? The answer is yes. Same concept applies to gum.

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