The Mystery of Bubble Gum Flavor

We all know what bubble gum flavor is. We all know what it tastes like. But how do we explain that taste to someone who's never tasted it? We might try to compare it to natural ingredients, but that would be rather difficult. Like everything else these days, it's made with artificial flavors. But what flavors?

Weird History looks into bubble gum flavor, what's in it, what it's supposed to taste like, and how it came about. That, of course, means telling us the history of gum, and then bubble gum in particular. Bubble gum is less than 100 years old, as it was invented in 1928 when the crucial ingredient latex was added to a failed prototype. All that history is pretty interesting, but if you want to learn about the flavoring only, you'll need to skip to about nine minutes into this video. If you watch the whole thing, you'll know everything there is to know about bubble gum.