Mastic Gum vs Regular Gum: What's Actually Different

The short answer: regular gum is manufactured, mastic gum is harvested. Regular gum starts with a synthetic gum base and adds sweeteners and flavorings. Mastic gum is a single ingredient: natural resin from the mastic trees of Chios, Greece.

Ingredients

Regular gum: gum base, sweeteners (sugar or sugar substitutes), flavorings, softeners and coatings. Mastic gum: tree resin. Flavored mastic adds a natural powder coating on the outside.

Firmness

Mastic is much firmer. Regular gum is engineered to go soft in seconds. Mastic starts hard, softens after 20 to 30 seconds of warming in your mouth, and stays a real chew the whole time. That resistance is the main reason people use mastic to work their jaw.

Taste

Regular gum hits you with sweetness and fades in minutes. Plain mastic is piney and fresh with a slight bitterness that mellows as you chew. Flavored mastic, like Peppermint or Maple, adds sweetness on the outside without changing the resin.

How long it lasts

Regular gum is single use. Mastic can be saved and re-chewed across several sessions, so one tin lasts about a month.

Sugar

Plain mastic has no sugar at all. Our flavored packs use natural coatings rather than a sugar-loaded formula.

Price

Mastic costs more because every tear is harvested and cleaned by hand on one island, once a year. Regular gum is made in factories at massive scale.

Which should you chew?

If you chew for flavor and forget about it, regular gum does the job. If you want a natural, single-ingredient chew with real resistance, mastic is the upgrade. Start with the Sample Pack or go straight to the Classic Pack. New to it? Read What Is Mastic Gum? first.