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

Question

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

In: Biology

Answer 1

The calories on food stuffs are the total, not the portion you swallow.

Sugars in the gum are desolved in saliva and swallowed or absorbed directly through the mouth tissue. So even if you don’t swallow the gum, the primary calories in it you typically would.