The first chewing gum factorer was seaman  John Curtis Jackson from the United States. He was the first who had the idea to give chewing gums a taste and give it in larger quantities. In addition, he used an Indian recipe using spruce resin as a raw material. 1848 he started production of its chewing gum and was immediately successful. Because of the lack of Sapodilla he used the crude oil extracted from paraffin as an ideal replacement for the Sapodilla resin. Jackson was the first one who brouht an artificial gum base product on the market.

On 27 July 1869 Amos Tyler patented the first chewing gum in Toledo, Ohio (USA).

The big breakthrough however only came with the photographer and inventor Thomas Adams who lived in New York. In 1869 heb bought the company "chicle" from the ex-Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. Adams tried unsuccessfully to produce synthetic and cheap caoutchouc from the raw material. Finally, he declined the idea to take latex as an alternative to the then popular Kauriegel of paraffin wax on the market. The chewing gum came as a waste product of its inventor spirit. Then he developed a chewing gum, with the Sassafras resin (also fennel wood tree) flavoured. Then he brought the "Black Jack" on the market, a chewing gum with Lakritzgeschmack, which succeeded in a very short time and was hit almost 100 years on the market held.
The first chicle balls by Adams were tasteless, cost one penny and were sold in a drug store in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1871.

The first who enriched chicle with a flavouring was John Colgan from Louisville, Kentucky, in 1875. He used the medical Tolubalsam, a resin of the South American balsam tree (Myroxylon), which worked against cough. The gum was Taffy-Tolu on the market and was successful.
In 1880manufacturer from Cleveland, Ohio for the first time brought a chewing gum with peppermint taste.