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Juicy Fruit

Juicy Fruit is a brand of chewing gum

Chewing gum

Chewing gum is a type of confection traditionally made of chicle, a natural latex product, or synthetic rubber. For reasons of economy and quality, many modern chewing gums use rubber instead of chicle....
made by Wrigley's. Introduced in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
in 1893, Juicy Fruit almost immediately became one of the best-selling brands in the country, and remains so today. It has had seven different packaging designs as of 2004; many older packages are considered collectors' items in a niche market.

roduction for more than 50 years, Juicy Fruit was taken off the civilian

Civilian

A civilian under international humanitarian law is a person who is not a member of his or her country's armed forces. The term is also often used colloquially to refer to people who are not members of a particular profession or occupation, especially by law enforcement agency, which often use rank structures similar to those of military units...
market temporarily during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
because of shortages in the necessary ingredients to make it; additionally, demand for gum to be included in C-ration

C-ration

The Type C or C-Ration was an individual canned, pre-cooked or prepared wet ration intended to be issued to U.S. military land forces when fresh food or packaged unprepared food prepared in mess halls or field kitchens was impractical or not available and when a survival ration was insufficient....
s made sufficient production impossible.

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Juicy Fruit is a brand of chewing gum

Chewing gum

United States

History

In production for more than 50 years, Juicy Fruit was taken off the civilian

Civilian

World War II

C-ration

Gram

The gram , ; symbol g, is a Physical unit of mass.Originally defined as "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of a metre, and at the temperature of melting ice" , a gram is now defined as one one-thousandth of the SI base unit, the kilogram, or Scientific notation kg, which itself is...
stick contains ten calorie

Calorie

The calorie is a pre-SI metric system unit of energy. The unit was first defined by Professor Nicolas Cl?ment in 1824 as a unit of heat. This definition entered French and English dictionaries between 1841 and 1867....
s (42 joule

Joule

The joule is the SI derived unit of energy in the International System of Units. It is defined as:One joule is the amount of energy required to perform the following actions:...
s).

Despite it not being a sugarless gum, in 2003 in the United States, Wrigley's replaced some of the sugar with aspartame and Ace K, both artificial sweeteners.

Flavor

People often report that the (Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India and north of Australia....
n) jack fruit tastes nearly identical to Juicy Fruit, but just which "fruit

Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
" serves as its flavor has been deliberately made vague by Wrigley's. Recently the company has capitalized on this in a campaign selling gum with flavors named "Strappleberry" and "Grapermelon" under the Juicy Fruit brand. Wrigley's apparently told Imponderables
Imponderables

Imponderables is a series of eleven books written by David Feldman . The books examine, investigate, and explain common, yet puzzling phenomena....
that banana

Banana

File:Banana and cross section.jpgBanana is the common name for a fruit and also the herbaceous plants of the genus Musa which produce this commonly eaten fruit....
is one crucial flavor among many others. It is likely, however, that the chemical used for flavoring is isopentenyl acetate, a carboxylic ester.

Television Commercial

Since Wrigley's dropped the Doublemint Gum commercial featuring Chris Brown due to legal issues. Wrigley's releases a new Jucie Fruit commercial featuring Julianne Hough

Julianne Hough

Julianne Hough is an American professional ballroom dancer and country music singer. She is most-widely known for being a two-time winner of ABC's Dancing with the Stars ....
sining the original Jucie fruit song. She can also be seen dancing with a new slim pack of the gum and in front of a bright yellow background.

Versions

In the early 2000s, a pellet gum version was introduced, and contains no sugar, unlike the stick version. However, the green version contains sugar, and was introduced in 2006.

For the past 25-plus years the slogan for Juicy Fruit has been "The taste is gonna move ya!".

Juicy Fruit Squeeze

In Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, there is a Juicy Fruit Squeeze version similar to Cadbury Adams

Cadbury Adams

Cadbury Adams, a subsidiary of Cadbury plc, is a confectionery company producing candy, chewing gum, Mint and cough drops headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey....
' Trident Splash.

External links

, the official website for the brand.