What ACTUALLY Happens When You Swallow Chewing Gum
- Publish date
- Friday, 3 Jun 2016, 4:20PM

It's the age old tale. 'Swallow gum and it will stay in your system for 7 years' back in the schoolyard nobody would dare question it and we were all happy to consider it a scientific fact before playing another round of 'ball tag'
How about if you swallow lots and lots of gum? Will you blow up to become a big bouncy ball?
Lucky for us Youtube channel Reactions have delved into the legend to see what actually happens when you swallow gum?
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So there you have it, if you can get your head around all these fancy scientific words you'll find there's some truth to the myth....but very very little of it.
Back to basics? Out with the old and in with the new is the motto.