
UPDATE: If you are looking for the answer to whether or not the wrappers are edible, here is the answer.
At this week’s All Candy Expo, Cadbury-Adams, the makers of Trident, Certs, and Dentyne (among other things), announced their newest innovation, Stride – The Ridiculously Long Lasting Gum.
According to a very un-scientific study conducted by The Chicago Sun-Times the flavor of the gum lasts anywhere between 34 minutes to 127 minutes. That might not be ridiculously long, but I’d say that is mighty impressive. The gum, which took 3 years of research and development to perfect, uses proprietary technology to encapsulate sweeteners causing them to be released over time insead of all at once.
Quick review: The gum is tasty and does last a long time, but it’s not a good flavor. After chewing for 15-20 minutes or so, it tastes like it’s just about to lose the last of its flavor and it tastes that way for a long time. So it’s not an enjoyable long-lasting gum. If you remove the promise of “long-lastingness”, it’s as good as any other gum out there.
The one thing that is frustrating to me about gum is not having any clue what flavor I am purchasing from the name. I usually end up getting wintergreen, which I hate, when trying to purchase peppermint gum.
June 10th, 2006 at 8:16 amUmm it says the flavor right on the top left corner of the package.. there is no peppermint, only winterblue and spearmint. And by the way, longest lasting gum ever. period.
RESPONSE: I think anon was talking about gum in general, not Stride. Maybe.
June 17th, 2006 at 7:06 pm–Brian
[...] Update: Blijkbaar heeft hij zijn 2006-trip doorheen 39 landen en 7 continenten, niet eens zelf moeten financieren: “Stride long-lasting gum” betaalde hem – gewoon om nog eens zo’n filmpje te maken .. Ehm, ik zou graag de wereld rondreizen en in elk land een Freddy-sticker plakken, is er een sponsor in de zaal? [...]
June 25th, 2006 at 2:27 pmwhere can i get a free sample of stride gum and do they sell it in canada?
August 25th, 2006 at 2:44 pmi love stride i am so addicted to it….. stride rocks… gum is so good
September 11th, 2006 at 1:19 pmi love stride gum it is the best gum i have ever tated it is really long lasting and it has a really good taste thank you mr. stride person for making this really great chewing gum.
October 13th, 2006 at 9:21 pmI have always favored Trident gum, as it is very long lasting and it’s a firm gum (I hate mushy soft gum – Like the new soft Dentyne ice gum). Stride gum just as good, maybe even better than Trident gum. I have only tried the spearmint flavor- that’s also my favorit Trident mint flavor.
October 19th, 2006 at 4:19 pmI dont know what some of you are talking about the gum being so great.
November 2nd, 2006 at 12:05 pmI bought 2 packs, and the flavor doesn’t even last through 1 quarter of a football game. the flavor is gone after about 10-15mins. winterfresh last just the same as stride. so i dont know what the hype is all about.
I chew Ihave chewed the same peice for 7 hours . It is very long lasting.
November 16th, 2006 at 6:43 pmhey im doing a project about how long the sugar free gum lasts its flavor and i need help with one thing i need to find out why stride last its flavor for a long time. email back =)
December 9th, 2006 at 2:34 pmOkay personally i chew at least 30 packs of stride gum a month…okay maybe not that much but pretty darn close to it! i love it and i do agree that something in it is addicting. because cause i cant stop chewing it. it does last long the people who say that it doesnt there on crack. i chew it all the time and it does last for a pretty good long time…ya kno idk what i would do with out it…people who are telling people that it isnt good…there retarted
December 30th, 2006 at 2:12 pmcCn you eat the Stride bubble gum wrapper? Someone is telling people that it is edible…Is it?
January 9th, 2007 at 1:51 pmum dude yeah can you eat the gum wrapper? my brother’s friends told my brother and he told me so i told my friends and they said that their cousin told them that it was edible. I think they’re all on speed.
January 21st, 2007 at 11:33 pmYes you can eat the wrapper to the gum.
January 27th, 2007 at 7:52 pmNuh-Uh can you really eat it!!! some one told me it just ‘Disolves’ in your mouth does it effect the flavor?
January 30th, 2007 at 10:39 pmI love STRIDE gum!
February 6th, 2007 at 6:49 pmToday i just tried to eat the gum with the wrapper still on it. In like 15 seconds the wrapper dissolves. It also makes the gum a darker blue.
February 7th, 2007 at 8:01 pmRecently stride gum has released a flavor titled “sweet peppermint” to address the peppermint question above. Also, what name would you call the wintermint flavor? It really is just like a wrigleys winterfresh flavor (but better)
February 8th, 2007 at 5:33 pmok dudes i tried the eat the paper thing and i almost hurled that is a load of bull crap..the gum still rocks though
February 11th, 2007 at 10:32 pmHas anyone found that they are allergic to Stride gum? I have narrowed down that I am, but I am not sure what in it I could be allergic to. I am not allergic to any other gums (thus far), so I was curious if anyone had
February 15th, 2007 at 2:32 amThanks,
Andrea
WOW i’ve never actually tried stride gum! but it sounds good. especially with the *wrapper* haha rock on thats so cool! but i’m doin an experiment for uh school about the longest lasting flavor of gum. Anyway i’m guna go buy some stride gum!
February 15th, 2007 at 7:28 pmpeace out
ps. who ever thought of edible gum wrappers.
stride gum wrapper isnt the only one that dissovlies it just gets chewed up in the gum im eating some now it doesnt dissolve
February 21st, 2007 at 2:15 pmi’m chewing Stride right now, and if i didn’t already know that it still had the wrapper on, i never would have noticed. no change in flavor, just color.
February 25th, 2007 at 12:23 amok i agree that the wrapper dont dissolve, it just gets chewed up, because the gum texture changes when you chew the wrapper too… my opinion is, EW
February 25th, 2007 at 4:16 pmI love eating the wraper of the gum
February 28th, 2007 at 6:20 pmthe wrapper on stride gum is the same color as the gum because youre suppose to chew it w/ the gum, its suppose to make the gum last longer but it doesnt desolve, i dunno why people waste their time talking about gum anyway even though im doing it right now,lol
March 2nd, 2007 at 6:41 pmI just got this off the internet on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stride_(gum), but i dunno if its true: Rumors have circulated suggesting that the wrapper of Stride gum is meant to be eaten along with the gum. While the paper wrapper is thin and will mix into the gum if chewed, the wrapper is not intended for consumption.
March 2nd, 2007 at 6:54 pmstride=love
March 3rd, 2007 at 5:05 pmCan you really eat the wrapper. I have been eating it along with the rest of my friends.
March 3rd, 2007 at 9:22 pmAnwser me please.
HI, my friends told me that we can Stride gum with it’s wrapper too. So I tried it and the wrapper turned into gum like in 5 minutes. Stride gum is the best. I just wanna know if that is safe or not. Please answer me. My mom doesn’t beleive me.
March 4th, 2007 at 9:02 pmof course its safe
March 5th, 2007 at 10:24 pmHey I LOVE gum sooooo much!!!!And stride is the BEST I have ever tasted!!!!I LOVE STRIDE!!!
March 6th, 2007 at 10:29 amIt’s a fact that the stride company has become so big that they want everyone in the world to go crazy about this “can you eat the wrapper?” It’s kinda like Willy Wonka!
March 9th, 2007 at 12:15 amCAN YOU EAT THE GUM WRAPPER ON THE STRIDE GUM?!?
March 14th, 2007 at 8:24 pmyou can not eat the wrapper u morons. u dnt kno wat culd have toched it thats WHY THEY WRAP IT..well im doing a project on what chewing gum last the longest.have ne comments get bak at me!! e-mail me LATERZZ…
-Jenn*
March 19th, 2007 at 8:24 pmi love the gum …… very addictin’ ……. and is very refreshin’ ………………also can u give me some info on the gum plzzzz cuz im doin’ a report 4 the science fair and need to find out the longest lastin flavor gum so plz help meee thanx ur so kind……well plz helppp mee and i think ur brand is gonna win!!! l8rz
March 20th, 2007 at 6:56 pmThis can not be ate with the wrapper. you all are crazy freaky idiots!
March 21st, 2007 at 11:42 amYou are not supposed to eat the wrapper of Stride gum! I phoned the number on the package and they said it’s not meant to eat!
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:36 pmyou guys are so Stupid you can eat the wrapper daaaaaaaa!
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:25 pmYESSS SNITCHES. YOU CAN EAT THE WRAPPERRRR!!! (: (: (: (: (: (: (: :D
March 25th, 2007 at 1:44 pmcan u eat the wrapper
March 26th, 2007 at 10:53 amI am an official employee of Cadbury Adams at the corporate headquaters in Plano Texas. We did not intend for any of the wrappers for any of our products to be consumed. Please discard the wrapper and enjoy the gum!
March 27th, 2007 at 12:57 pmI think that Stride caused some kind of weird rash on my tongue and the roof of my mouth. Has anyone else had this happen?
March 30th, 2007 at 11:22 amgo ahead and eat the wrapper if that’s what floats your boat (when i was little i used to eat the paper lollipop sticks).. but ew.
I like stride gum, but after a while the weirdness of the flavor kind of makes my stomach upset.. like it just messes with me. So i can only chew it for like 10 minutes.
March 30th, 2007 at 4:18 pmu can chew the wrapper with stride!!! this stuff is amazing and life saving!!!
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:56 amEating the wrapper hasn’t hurt me yet….so just eat the thing.
April 5th, 2007 at 8:16 amGreat long lasting gum! Need to make cinnamon flavor. I will eat the wrapper then.
April 8th, 2007 at 1:07 pmYes, you can chew the wrapper. It’s no big secret, its not like Stride secretly made a edible wrapper, but you CAN chew the wrapper up with the gum. It does dissolve because the texture changes one the wrapper is gone. I’m doing it right now=] I love Stride.
April 8th, 2007 at 4:43 pmIt will not HURT you to eat the wrapper, and it does not effect the flavor of the gum, so dont worry about it if you preffer the gum with the wrapper, just go for it!
April 8th, 2007 at 4:45 pmup to almost 3 hours
April 10th, 2007 at 5:24 pmYeha, you can eat the wrapper! It dissolves, and I heard that the wrapper is also made of rice paper, which is edible, it doesnt matter. Eat it to get your money’s worth lol
April 11th, 2007 at 7:16 pmThats right, The wrappers are actually made of rice paper and dissolve. they have no flavor by them selves, but when you eat it with the wrapper, it keeps the flavor inside until of course, it dissolves and then it’s like a huge rush of flavor. So I guess it really does save the flavor.
April 11th, 2007 at 7:22 pmSo, I was in math class this morning, you know chewing Stride…and someone mentioned that I could chew the gum with the wrapper still intact…I am going to try it after lunch with my last piece, so hopefully everything goes well…!
April 12th, 2007 at 12:38 pmI have eaten the wrapper on stride. I am also a pimp.
April 14th, 2007 at 10:39 pmeat the wrapper
April 15th, 2007 at 2:29 pmThanks Mr. Stride! I absolutely love your gum!! It’s the official premium chewing gum of Vatican City! â€
April 20th, 2007 at 2:59 pmyour’e not suppose to eat the wrapper! it does not dissolve it just gets stuck in the gum and causes green (or blue) hard specs throughout the piece of chewing gum.
April 21st, 2007 at 10:21 pmdoes anyone know anything about the fruit flavor stride? it is called forever fruit and comes in yellow packaging, it is great but i cant find it anymore it seems to have disapeared.
April 23rd, 2007 at 12:56 amim really confused about the edible gum wrappers! two of my friends said that u could eat ‘em, but i dont no if their reight, but i tried it a few times… if you chew it for long enough, it eventually dissolves in the gum. i dont no if their for real, or not. Somone please clarify!
April 27th, 2007 at 1:35 pmSTRIDE GUM IS FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!!
April 27th, 2007 at 9:27 pmI am doing a project of long lasting gum and i haven’t started from all these ideas i think this will be the coolest project i have ever done!!!!
May 1st, 2007 at 8:30 pmthe gum is good i like eating the wrappers cuz dey are edible
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:27 pmomg! i luv stride i’m now chewing the new flavor forever fruit it awsome with the wrapper! i luv gum and stride my fav.~!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 7th, 2007 at 8:47 pmStRidE gUm iS aMazZinG tHe pAper mAkeS mE alL tInglY inSidE I lOvE thIS StuFF so0o0o0o mUcH!!!!!$$$$$~~~~****
May 8th, 2007 at 12:00 pmoookay im chewing a wraper to stride… its not disolving… so ya XD
July 1st, 2009 at 9:17 pmOmg! Guy’s Okayy I Just Put A Piece Of The Mystery Flavor (Withh The Wrapperr) And After About 5 min.s It Does Desolve! I Saww All thesee Comentss Because Me And My Mom Were Disagreeing On It! (The Fact That You Can Eat The Wrapperr!) But Anyway’s Ya All You Who Thinkk You Cantt Eatt the Wraperr Are CRAZY! And I’m A Blondee! And I’m Crazy Too!!!!
October 17th, 2010 at 5:34 pmStride Gumm Is Amazingg!!!!
It is not suppose to be eaten but you can chew it if you want but as long as you dont swallow it its probably ok.
October 6th, 2011 at 9:36 amyall SUCK if any thing orbit is best. teah i said a enemy name on your web site but is true
October 12th, 2011 at 4:56 pmGum is NOT long lasting, if you think it is, obviously you’re believing everything you hear and it’s taken over your brain.
Gum reminds me of bubbelicious, overpoweringly sweet at first, rubbery and thick in texture, overpriced and flavour runs out fast.
November 29th, 2011 at 10:49 am