The couple in the “Extra Gum: The Story of Sarah & Juan” commercial is played by actors Alyssa Milano and Antonio Sabato Jr. They beautifully portray the journey of a couple's relationship through the years, using Extra gum as a symbol of their love and connection.

agency Energy BBDO Created by ad agency Energy BBDO, a new two-minute spot features Sarah and Juan, two teenagers who meet at high school over a stick of Extra gum, and follows them as they fall in love, navigate a long-distance relationship and eventually get engaged - including a clever plan involving a marriage proposal with sketches ...

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In the United States, European settlers picked up the habit of chewing spruce from Native Americans as far back as the 1600s. But it wasn't until 1848 that a New Englander named John B. Curtis started selling it commercially. His Maine Pure Spruce Gum, and its natural spruce taste, became enormously popular.

In 1984 Wrigley introduced EXTRA, its first sugar-free gum, to the U.S. market. Within five years, it became the #1 selling brand of its kind. Both then and now, EXTRA is recognized for its incredible, long-lasting flavor.

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WHY DO DENTISTS RECOMMEND CHEWING EXTRA AFTER EATING AND DRINKING? Chewing sugar-free gum for 20 minutes after drinking or eating stimulates the production of saliva, which acts as our body's own natural tooth protection. It works in 3 ways: Restores the pH balance in your mouth, neutralising plaque acids.

The major event that contributed to the chewing gum ban was unveiling of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project. Singapore invested $5 billion in this project to facilitate smooth and rapid transport for its people. Unfortunately, the door sensors of the train were vandalised by sticking chewing gum on them.

Chewing gum not only helps to add freshness to breath but can aid in removing food particles and bacteria associated with bad breath from teeth. It does this by stimulating saliva, which essentially washes out the mouth.

In the late 1840s, John Curtis developed the first commercial spruce tree gum by boiling resin, then cutting it into strips that were coated in cornstarch to prevent them from sticking together. By the early 1850s, Curtis had constructed the world's first chewing gum factory, in Portland, Maine.

Chewing Gum is a British television sitcom created and written by Michaela Coel, based on her 2012 play Chewing Gum Dreams. It stars Coel as 24-year-old shop assistant Tracey Gordon, a restricted, religious virgin, who wants to have sex and learn more about the world.

Coel based the show off her more serious play Chewing Gum Dreams, a semi-autobiographical riff on her own experience growing up in a Ghanaian family in the Tower Hamlets in London (like Tracey, Coel was once a Pentecostal Christian, though she has since left the church).