WE’VE GOT THE

POWDER
THE KEY TO YOUR NEW
MEDICATED CHEWING GUM
 • Health in Gum® is a powdered excipient
specially designed to formulate and produce medicated
chewing gum INNOVATION at your service
• It combines gum base and sweeteners in a unique
Medicated chewing gum is an innovative drug-delivery system that
matrix product to which you can add active ingredients to
releases active ingredients through the mechanical action of chewing,
create compressed chewing gum
and offers a wide range of advantages:
• Health in Gum® is a new oral drug-delivery system designed to fit the
demands of the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries • Attractive format, highly patient compliant

• Immediate effect, local and systemic

It is easy to use: Health in Gum® performs excellently using standard
tableting equipment
It is a great solution for sensitive APIs: it works at room temperature
and has a water activity value of 0.5%
• Reduced exposure to gastrointestinal side effects
• Suitable for therapeutic and functional use
• Inherent benefits of chewing

With the
CAFOSA GUARANTEE
Cafosa is part of Wrigley (subsidiary of Mars Inc.) and is the world’s leading gum base
supplier. Gum base is the main ingredient in chewing gum, used in confectionery and
pharmaceutical industries.
 MAKING COMPRESSED CHEWING GUM has never been so easy
FITS your needs Example formula HiG PWD 01 HiG PWD 03 HiG PWD 04
Dimenhydrinate 20 mg Gum Base content 25% 35% 30%
• Choose the grade that suits your Tablet Gum
(for 1500mg total gum piece) Weight % mg Polyol content Sorbitol/Xylitol Sorbitol/Isomalt Sorbitol/Mannitol/Xylitol
requirements
Presence of plasticizer Triacetin No presence Triacetin
Dimenhydrinate 1,33 20,0
• Add the desired active ingredient
HEALTH IN GUM® 93,67 1405,0 Water activity (Max) 0,50% 0,30% 0,50%
• Choose your flavours Particle size (d50/µm) 400 280 370
Powder Flavour 1,80 27,0
• Mix all the ingredients Lubricant 1,50 22,5

• Compress the product to create Glidant 0,90 13,5

FITS your business

your medicated chewing gum Liquid Flavour 0,60 9,0
Intense Sweeteners 0,20 3,0

Health in Gum® has been created to help you expand and develop

FITS your company your product range, creating new market opportunities in both the
pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries. These are
• Can be produced in your own or just a few examples:
partner’s facilities
• No need for additional chewing- RESULT
gum specific equipment YOUR Applications in the pharmaceutical
DIRECT
MIXING MEDICATED industry
• Works perfectly with standard COMPRESSION
tableting machines
CHEWING Antihistamines / Analgesics / Decongestants /
GUM Antacids / Anti-infectives / and much more…

Applications in the nutraceutical industry

Amino acids / Antioxidants / Dietary fiber /
Energy supplements / Minerals / Vitamins /
Weight-loss supplements / and much more…
WITH ALL THE BENEFITS of chewing
Your final product will have not only the effects of the added active ingredient,
but also all the benefits of chewing.
EXCELLENCE first
Our priority is to offer safe products made with the highest
quality ingredients to ensure excellence. To do this we use the
most appropriate models and techniques.
Cafosa’s Health in Gum® facilities meet the highest
international standards including ISO 9001, FSSC 22000
API PROPERTIES and ISO 14001.

+ Our HACCP system ensures compliance with the most

demanding food-safety standards.

BENEFITS OF CHEWING
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MORE
THERAPEUTIC
BENEFITS At Cafosa, we have a goal: to be a trusted partner to our customers, providing solutions that
allow them to grow and differentiate themselves in the market through close collaboration and
ongoing innovation. This is how we created Health in Gum®: using the very latest technology to
• Oral health
create the best quality compressed chewing gum for our customers.
• Weight management
Because at Cafosa we’ve always known that the future belongs to those who dare to look forward.
• Stress relief
• Alertness and concentration
 Health in Gum®
Av. Diagonal 474, 3ª planta 08006 Barcelona (Spain)
T.+34 934 100 300 / Fax + 34 933 214 405

www.healthingum.com / info@healthingum.com / @healthingum