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Who is the inventor of gummy candy?

Gummies are chewing gum. The inventor is American Adams.

Chewing gum originated in the United States. In 1836, a Mexican general was captured at the Battle of Jacento. After being released, he brought a dried sapodilla gum to New York, USA, and wanted to study it with adventurers as a substitute for rubber. He took the gum to meet Adams, an adventurer in Jersey City, USA. But experiments to replace rubber with it failed. The general fled due to debt. While talking with the general, Adams found that he took a small piece of gum from his pocket and put it in his mouth to chew. Adams' son also liked this thing. One day, Adams saw the shopkeeper selling a piece of paraffin to a little girl in a drugstore (at that time, paraffin was used for chewing). The incident reminded him of the general's gum and his son's interests. So he made an agreement with the drugstore owner that he would process the gum brought by the general into new spherical chews. Then, Adams bought a batch of gum, rented a house, and started mass production. This is the earliest chewing gum. After World War II, people began to experiment with chewing gum synthetics and synthetic resins, and achieved success. Since then, chewing gum has gone global.