What Happens When You Swallow Chewing Gum?
This vertical short tackles the myth that swallowed gum stays in your stomach for seven years. It shows saliva releasing sweeteners and flavorings that the body digests, while the gum base resists digestion, moves through the digestive tract and usually leaves in stool. It is made for a general audience in the Biomedical 3D style, with anatomy rendered in photoreal detail.
Health and medicine Biomedical 3D style
- Voice
- Freddie
- Language
- English
- Length
- 0:27
The brief
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Make a 30 second vertical (9:16) educational short for a general audience about what happens when you swallow chewing gum. Open by asking whether it really stays in your stomach for seven years, and answer no. Explain that chewing releases the sweeteners and flavorings, which the body digests along with other digestible ingredients, while the gum base resists digestion. Follow it through the digestive tract until it usually leaves the body in stool. Use a curious, brisk and conversational narrator, animated subtitles and realistic, colorful 3D anatomy with smooth camera moves.
The script
Swallow a piece of gum. Does it really stay in your stomach for seven years? No. As you chew, saliva releases the gum’s sweeteners and flavorings. Your body digests those, along with other digestible ingredients. But the gum base resists digestion. It moves through your digestive tract with the rest of its contents, and usually leaves your body in stool. So gum doesn’t camp out in your stomach for years. It keeps moving—and eventually passes through.
