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Extra Dessert Delights Rainbow Sherbet flavor review, limited edition

March 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Extra Dessert Delights, Rainbow Sherbet

About six weeks ago, I heard Extra launched a limited edition dessert delights rainbow sherbet flavor; I couldn't find it anywhere and I was frantic. Finally, I saw it at Target in a three pack. Extra has developed a great new line of gum,dessert delights, using the most current flavor technology, sensates.  Sensates are flavors that contribute cool sensation without minty or off flavors. Therefore, a flavor scientist can blend sherbet flavor with a sensate and offer the consumer a refreshing, sweet gum that is cool and not minty. Menthol (the characterizing part of peppermint) and sensates affect the body's thermal receptors by stimulating ionic channels. Our body also feels cool through evaporation. Rainbow sherbet flavor reminds … [Read more...]

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Project 7 sugar free Fresh mint gum, flavor review

February 24, 2012 By 2 Comments
Project 7 Fresh Mint Gum

I'm a sucker for helping others on a global scale. Usually, I consider help writing checks to reputable organizations. Do I think buying gum will help the world?  Not really. Especially this gum. There is nothing unique about Project 7 gum and it tastes bad, like it's been a hot car all summer.  Will Project 7's goal of one million new fruit tree plantings in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua change much?  Maybe...I'm not certain.  I'd rather write a check, though, than chew this gum. When I first pop this natural & artificially flavored, artificially colored and synthetically sweetened gum in my mouth; my impression is pinesol and dirt! I imagine the mint oils sourced for this gum are from foreign countries and unprocessed. … [Read more...]

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Trident Layers Orchard Peach & Ripe Mango flavor review

January 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Trident Layers Chewing gum, Orchard Peach & Ripe Mango

As a flavor chemist, I have to applaud the flavorist who made this peach & mango flavor. This is a well-balanced, creamy, tropical, crisp, fruity peach mango flavor and would be very difficult to copy. As a consumer and mom, I am concerned about such high flavor load in a product that children would consume. Typically fruit flavors are a "top note" for beverages or fruit fillings that lose some potency during processing. In confection, though, added fruit flavors are the entire flavor system. Chewing gum in particular has an extremely high flavor load, perhaps 2% vs a piece of candy that has 0.2%.  Flavor load is high because it is desired that gum's flavor last 20 minutes. The United States government is very strict about what … [Read more...]

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Orbit wildberry remix sugar free chewing gum review

December 6, 2011 By 2 Comments
Orbit Wildberry Remix

Often I hear "our world is getting smaller".  When people say that; they are referring to the ease of travel or transportation. How about food and flavor? When I visited Italy 10 years ago, a very popular confection & beverage flavor was forest fruits. Forest flavors is portrayed with pictures of blackberries, blueberries and raspberries and is always somewhat floral. My first impression of the Orbit wildberry remix is that it's forest fruits flavor from Europe. When I opened the packaged and smelled the gum, though, I changed my mind. Orbit Wildberry Remix smells just like grape soda or grape candy flavor for kids. Initially, the gum was juicy, sweet and flavorful. It reminded me of a berry flavored Starburst, and I love … [Read more...]

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Extra Dessert Delights sugarfree gum Apple Pie review

November 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Extra Dessert Delights sugarfree gum Apple Pie

It's never easy to have a holiday weekend come to an end. Personally, I celebrated with two dinners and lots of left overs. Celebrating involved gorging: there was ham, turkey, mashed potatoes & gravy, stuffing, cranberries,  fresh rolls, appetizers, cheese plates, spinach dip, pumpkin pie and apple pie. My recovery plan is lots of water, exercise and healthy, low-calorie food. It's going to be difficult to resist the homemade apple pie I have in the fridge, though. Thankfully, Wrigley has my back and came out with the gum line Extra Dessert Delights sugar-free gum. One of their more recent launches is apple pie. I love apple pie, but will it be good as a chewing gum flavor? Well, Extra gum isn't as good as apple pie, but it is … [Read more...]

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UP2U Mentos Gum MandarinStrawbery/Spearmint Review

November 17, 2011 By 2 Comments
UP2U Mandarin Strawberry Spearmint

This is the 2nd gum flavor pack from UP2U I am reviewing. As previously stated, I love the marketing of this new Mentos gum and find it new, fun & exciting. I wish I could say the same about mandarin strawberry flavor. It's an interesting concept for a gum flavor and seems better suited for an adult beverage. Strawberry lemonade is more mainstream and would most likely taste better. My biggest complaint about the strawberry mandarin flavor is the floral flavor, it made the gum perfumey. There were some green strawberry notes, woody mandarin character and orange follow through, but in general the floral note made it unappealing. The coolness level and lingering sensation was perfect.  At 5-6 minutes into the chew my mouth was … [Read more...]

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Dentyne Pure Mint with Citrus Accents review

November 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dentyne Pure Mint with Citrus accents

"Practice Safe Breath"?  It seems like a strange tagline, but this new Dentyne Pure does what it claims: my mouth feels very clean & refreshed after chewing. Dentyne Pure Mint with Citrus Accents is a dragee style gum (candy coated pellet) and has a soft liquid center that is bluish-green (like the package). Because this line of gum "purifies your breath", it is called Dentyne Pure. The unique item about this gum is that it has a blend of botanical extracts. I am guessing this blend of extracts is "Neutrafresh". It is not clear what "Neutrafresh" is. I didn't ask those closest to me if my breath was clean after chewing, but I felt like I had fresh breath. Mint with Citrus accents is a delicious gum. I can't say that I get much … [Read more...]

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Trident Splashing Fruit review

October 31, 2011 By 1 Comment
Trident Splashing Fruit Gum

My eight year old told me, "actually this gum is pretty good" and that basically sums it up.    Trident Splashing Fruit is a yellow gum with red flavor crystals and the aroma is much like fruit punch, wonderfully citrusy up front with hints of  fruity notes underneath.  The first taste impression I got of this gum was sweet.   As I chewed, it got tangy and cool (not minty), but the syrupy sweetness lingered for several minutes.   No wonder my eight year old likes this gum.  This is a very sweet gum. My impression of the flavor is that it is a mango flavor, very creamy, sweet and tropical.  I am amazed at  how long the flavor lasts and how the sweetness caries through.   There is a coolness in the gum that tingles in my … [Read more...]

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Extra SmoothMint sugar free gum review

October 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
Smooth Mint

When I saw this new Extra gum at the store, I was not excited. Lately, Extra has launched new dessert gums and those have been fun: Strawberry Shortcake, Apple Pie, Key Lime Pie...Yum! Compared to those gums, smooth mint sounded bland. The package seemed unexciting, especially after just reviewing the new Stride Shaun White gum. The aroma of this Extra gum was not impressive. It was mentholic and minty with a slight dirty, ashy note. When I started chewing the gum, though, my opinion changed and I found this gum impressively smooth and minty. The gum had a slightly creamy, fruity  undertone that subtly smoothed the cool mentholic peppermint.   The creamy fruitiness lingered for an "extra long time" and kept the usual bitter/burning … [Read more...]

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Stride Whitemint Gum (Shaun White) review

October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Stride Shaun White

It's common in the fragrance industry to have a perfume created for a specific celebrity. Rarely does this happen in the food and flavor industry. It's exciting to see a gum specifically created for Shaun White. What parent doesn't want their kid aspiring to be an Olympic gold medal athlete like Shaun White? As a parent of a child who had several surgeries before age 5, I'm inspired  that Shaun had two heart surgeries at a very young age and still went on to become one of our country's best athletes. What is Whitemint flavor? When I took the cellophane wrapper off the gum package, I was hit with a strong wintergreen flavor that was sweet & creamy. Wintergreen is a popular flavor in the United States and I always enjoy this flavor. … [Read more...]

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