Brands Questioning Categories UK-based Nuud Snacks Ltd has launched Nuud Gum, a plant-based chewing gum. The brand’s package and website proudly proclaim that the gum is ‘plastic free’ and explain that typical chew gum is “quietly made from plastic –as much per piece as in a drinking straw.” Instead, the company uses chicle (the plant-resin originally used in chewing gum) and is biodegradable—leading to their slogan “Chew plants, not plastic.” Available DTC in Peppermint and Spearmint (if you live in the UK,