Patent ID: 8211980

Claim:
A chewing gum composition exhibiting reduced adhesion to surfaces comprising a water-insoluble gum base, in an amount sufficient to form a chewable gum composition, and a sweetening agent, wherein at least part of the water-insoluble gum base comprises a polymeric material having low tack which has a straight or branched chain carbon-carbon polymer backbone and a multiplicity of side chains attached to the backbone wherein the side chains, which are attached directly to carbon atoms of the polymer backbone, have the formula wherein R 1 is H, —C(O)OR 4 or —C(O)Q and R 2 is —C(O)OR 4 or —C(O)Q provided that at least one of R 1 and R 2 is the group —C(O)Q; R 3 is H or —CH 3 ; R 4 is H or an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; Q is a group having the formula —O—(YO) b —(ZO) c —R 5 , wherein each of Y and Z is, independently, an alkylene group having from 2 to 4 carbon atoms and R 5 is H or an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and each of b and c is, independently, 0 or an integer of from 1 to 125 provided that the sum b+c has a value in the range of from 10 to 250, and wherein the carbon-carbon polymer backbone is derived from a homopolymer of an ethylenically-unsaturated polymerizable hydrocarbon monomer containing 5 carbon atoms, or is derived from a homopolymer of isobutylene, or is derived from a copolymer of isobutylene and isoprene.