How does your mouth affect bubble gum?

Answer 1

When you put gum in your mouth, your taste-buds sense the flavour and start producing saliva. This is normal with any food, as the saliva makes the food slide down your oesophagus easier. The gum itself is pretty much flavoured rubber, it isn't meant to dissolve. Rubber doesn't dissolve unless you light it on fire. But I doubt you'd be lighting your mouth on fire just to see.

The chewing, the saliva and the flexibility of the gum. The chewing squishes the gum around, the saliva makes it wet and release more flavour and the flexibility of the gum just makes it fun to chew.

In other words...you're chewing flavoured rubber. That's why you shouldn't swallow it either. It's not meant to dissolve quickly. So it just sits in your stomache and makes it harder for you to go poopies.

Answer 2

When you chew bubble gum, your mouth produces saliva which helps to soften and break down the gum. The muscles in your jaw and tongue work to create the chewing motion, allowing the gum to stretch and form bubbles. Once the gum is chewed enough, you can blow a bubble by trapping air in the stretched gum and blowing it out through your mouth.