Which brand of bubble
gum loses it’s flavor the
fastest?
The purpose of my investigation is to
determine what brand of bubble gum loses it’s
flavor the fastest based on the loss of sugar
content. This is important to know because if
you want to chew a piece of bubble gum for a
long time with it still having flavor, you would
know which brand to buy.
I hypothesize that Double
Bubble will lose it’s flavor
the fastest. I believe this
because from my schema of
just chewing gum, is that
loses it’s flavor really fast.
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5 pieces of Extra bubble gum
5 pieces of Dubble bubble bubble gum
5 pieces of Hubba bubba gum
Phone timer
Balance
Gram cubes
15-4x6 inch's of coffee filter (to lay gum on)
Manipulated
variable
Responding
variable
Constant
variable
Brand of gum Change in mass -Time to chew
-Person who’s
chewing gum
-Method of
measuring sugar
content
-Coffee filter
1. Gather materials
2. Put a piece of gum in balance on a 4x6 piece of
coffee filter
3. Balance the piece of gum with gram cubes
4. Record mass
5. Chew the gum for 30 minutes
6. Let each piece of gum dry for four hours on a
coffee filter
7. Find the mass of the piece of gum again
8. Record mass
9. Repeat steps 2-7 five times with each brand of
gum
10. Repeat steps 2-8 for four more trails
SUGAR CONTENT (g)
GUM
EXTRA
BUBBLE GUM
DUBBLE
BUBBLE
HUBBA BUBBA
TRIAL 1
TRIAL 2
TRIAL 3
TRIAL 4
TRIAL 5
AVERAGE
2
2
2
2
2
2
5
5
5
4
4.5
4.7
5
5
5
5
5
5
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My hypothsize was incorrect. Dubble Bubble
did not loses it’s flavor the fastest. Chewing
extra Bubble gum, I found that the average
lose of sugar was 2 grams. The next gum,
Dubble Bubble had an average of 4.7 grams
lost. For Hubba Bubba there was an average
of 5 grams that were lost. If I had to do this
experiment again, I would not have blown any
bubbles because it might have effected the
loss of sugar.