Design, formulation and evaluation of caffeine chewing gum

Formulation of corn zein chewing gum

Ipomoea turpethum R. Br. [= Operculina terpethum (Linn.) Silva Manso (Hindi—Nisoth, Pitohri), a perennial plant with a muchtwisted stem is found through out India. It is reported to be highly medicinal and is cultivated occasionally in gardens as an ornamental plant. Some hydroxy fatty acids, butulin, lupeol and sitosterol have been found in the plant. Seed gums are important vegetable products...

formulation and evaluation of medicated chewing gum of nicotine tartrate

Effects of caffeine in chewing gum on mood and attention.

RATIONALE Recent research has shown that even small doses (<40mg) of caffeine can improve alertness and increase performance efficiency on attention tasks. Previous studies have given the caffeine in a variety of beverages or in capsules and it was of interest to see whether similar effects could be observed when the caffeine was given in gum. In addition, chewing gum has been shown to have beh...

Chewing gum and stress reduction

Article history: Received: March 26, 2016 Revised: April 12, 2016 Accepted: April 23, 2016 Published online: April 24, 2016 The behavioral effects of chewing gum have been studied for over 80 years and much of the research has been concerned with increases in alertness and attention. Another line of research has addressed the issue of whether chewing gum reduces stress. This topic has been stud...

Chewing gum and context-dependent memory: the independent roles of chewing gum and mint flavour.

Two experiments independently investigated the basis of the chewing gum induced context-dependent memory effect. At learning and/or recall, participants either chewed flavourless gum (Experiment 1) or received mint-flavoured strips (Experiment 2). No context-dependent memory effect was found with either flavourless gum or mint-flavoured strips, indicating that independently the contexts were in...