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Illinois researchers use corn byproduct to make chewing gum.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2004
By Steve Tarter, Journal Star, Peoria, Ill. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 9--BLOOMINGTON, Ill. -- The Illinois Corn Marketing Board is ready to sink its teeth into yet another new use for corn.
Along with ethanol and soft drinks, corn byproducts are found in hundreds of products. Board-funded research on a new use -- chewing gum -- has been going on for two years at the University of Illinois.
Researchers have been working on a formula using a corn byproduct called zein to develop a new kind of chewing gum, one that won't stick to your shoe.
Gum's down side is the fact it's a mess. Chewing gum was banned in Singapore in the early 1990s because of all the clean-up problems. "Asian countries can't import (American)...
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