senior moments
Do you eat food with sugar or sugar substitutes, or any other processed food? Or do you EAT OUT?
Shouldn't worry about chewing a piece of gum for a few minutes unless you have eliminated all other bad foods from your diet. I believe there are only a few on this forum, i.e. MH, Fruitarian, Rawdad, and a few others that have eliminated all "bad" "processed" from their diets. When I do what they are doing, then I'll worry about chewing gum.
If you have eliminated these processed foods, good for you, but if not, don't worry about the gum at this point. Unless of course, you're chewing it all the time.