Because it is made with sugar. Sugar has 16 calories per teaspoon. If the gum is made with an artificial sweetener, some artificial sweeteners have calories, some do not.
10 calories an hour, sugar free gum.
It contains 50 calories
Gum chewing: Average female - 10 calories per hour Average male - 12 calories per hour * based on 30 chews per minute
146 kcales Alternate answer: Yes. Most chewing gums contain five calories per stick.
5 calories per piece of gum.
it depends all gum is different.
well it might help your jaw muscles get stronger by chewing but overall gum even has calories like the 5 gum has 5 calories(:
If you are talking about EXTRA gum, there is 5 calories to a stick. If you are talking about 5 Gum, it 500 calories.
According to "thedailyplate.com" there are 15 calories in a single 5g piece of Dubble Bubble chewing gum.
http://www.annecollins.com/calories/calories-chewing-gum.htm Says it's 10 calories per stick
There are 5 calories in a whole small pack of Stride gum!
Most gum has little to no calories. I would not classify it as a food at all.