chewing gum

soft, cohesive substance intended for chewing but not swallowing
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chewing gum

Summary

chewing gum ranks in the top 0.91% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (160 views/month, #708 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • chewing gum is made of sweetener[2].
  • chewing gum is made of chicle[3].
  • chewing gum is made of gum base[4].
  • chewing gum is a type of confection[5].
  • chewing gum is a type of masticatory[6].
  • chewing gum's Commons category is recorded as Chewing gum[7].
  • chewing gum's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Chewing gum[8].
  • chewing gum's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[9].
  • chewing gum's hardness is recorded as {'amount': '+20'}[10].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include confection[5] and masticatory[6].

Influence

Things named for chewing gum include Gumroad[11], a website[12], in United States[13], founded in 2011[14], headquartered in San Francisco[15].

Why It Matters

chewing gum ranks in the top 0.91% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (160 views/month, #708 of 77,819).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Entities named for it include Gumroad[11], a website[12], in United States[13], founded in 2011[14], headquartered in San Francisco[15].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [12] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7h ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 85
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ast', 'az', 'ba', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bh', 'bn', 'ca', 'cdo', 'ckb'
    Harper's tag → chewing-gum
    Foodon id → 03310643
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P6767]]: 03310643, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/180475226|chewing gum (#180475226)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5485|FoodOn ID]] #mix'n'"
  2. 13w ago · Putnik · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → kramtomoji-guma
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P7666]]: kramtomoji-guma"
  3. 16w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0408696-zvykacky
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0408696-zvykacky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
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