Run Gum Fruit Flavor Caffeinated Energy & Focus Gum, 50mg Caffeine per Piece, Sugar Free with Taurine & B-Vitamins, Fast-Acting Chewing Gum, 24 Pieces (12 Packs)

Caffeine triggers my acid reflux (GERD) symptoms, so I'm always on the lookout for products that deliver caffeine while bypassing the G-I tract. Chewing gums or lozenges help achieve this goal by delivering caffeine sublingually. There are other caffeine gums on the market, but they are all either mint or cinnamon flavored (which are also known GERD triggers). So, it's great to see a product that has a different flavor, and is therefore gentler on the stomach.Even if you're not a GERD patient, sublingual delivery is much faster than tea or caffeine -- it goes straight to your brain without needing to be processed by the digestive tract.The taste of this gum is great. Does the flavor wear off after a while and reveal a different undertaste? Yes, but so does every other caffeine gum I've tried. It comes with the territory -- that's just the taste of caffeine! If you want a chewing gum tastes like bubble gum with zero caffeine aftertaste, I suggest you stick with children's bubble gum instead. Buy yourself a pack of Bubble Yum or Dubble Bubble and leave this product for the adults.Does the texture change some after you chew this for a while? Yes, but again if that bothers you, you're using this wrong and for the wrong reasons. I chew the gum just enough to soften it and break the shell, after which I put it under my tongue and leave it there. If you keep chewing it until the end, you're going to swallow most of the caffeine with your saliva -- which will slow down the delivery process, trigger symptoms in those who can't digest caffeine, and just generally detract from some of the best features of this product.In summary: understand what this is, why it's so great, and use it accordingly. This product is invaluable for its quick caffeine delivery and gentleness on the stomach -- but it's not the bubble gum of your childhood and it needs to be used differently to leverage its benefits. For those of you just looking to recreate your childhoods, buy some kiddy bubble gum and stick to coffee. This is not for you.

Cinnamon gun starts off really strong. It tastes amazing and it gave me a bit of a boost. Not a huge one but I felt happier and didn't feel like I needed a nap anymore. I thought ppl we're just bitching about the aftertaste. And then it hit. It doesn't taste awful. As soon as I take the gum out of my mouth the bad taste is pretty much gone too. It really just tastes like when you drink orange juice after using mouthwash. Take a second, drink some water, and then it's fine. It helps to chew it w your front teeth instead of the back corners of your mouth. For some reason the flavor only hits there. My only real issue is that it makes me nauseated. Not horribly. But enough to wear I don't really feel like eating anything for the rest of the day. Making it an awesome product if you're trying to lose weight. But as quickly as the aftertaste came, it goes away just as fast. It hits you hard for less than a minute. Then about 2-3 minutes later it's gone again and you suddenly oddly have zero interest in any food and any distractions the rest of the day. I got SSSSOOOOOO MUCH WORK DONE!!! I am a generally productive individual, and I never exceed expectations quite like I have since chewing this gum. Could just be the placebo affect. But I doubt that. I feel stronger and faster and happier and more capable and honestly unstoppable now. Weirdly enough this gum actually makes me feel really sexy. Even more than a micromini and thigh high boots do. Just keep chewing and you're good. Do the water trick I mentioned and you'll be totally fine. The longer you chew it the better you feel. And the gum falling apart thing that one person showed is not accurate. It's almost as thick as dentyne gum. I think she just ate something earlier that affected it's elasticity. Like anything citrus or sugary can do that to your gum. Don't drink full fat soda w gum. Rule no 1. Cuz if you will its gonna make you're gum mealy. One square of this gun lasted me about 5hours. And it didn't fall apart. If you think yours is getting close, just suck on an ice cube or drink cold water and it will firm it back up.

There was an after taste that I didn't particularly like, however it did have an energy boost that I did like.

I'm a long time buyer of this product, I have bad Acid Reflux and can't have coffee but still very much need caffeine, and this has been very much preferable than drinking Coke in the morning like I did while I was in college. According to my amazon account, I've bought it upwards of 60 times. During this time, occasionally I would get a pack that would start out like gum, but turn into fuzzy liquid in my mouth, which sounds gross because it is really gross. But it's only ever been a one off, until my last two purchases, both bubblegum flavor. The first pack has had all of the gum disintegrate, I continued to try them but it was the same all along. So I went to order more, figuring this was just a bad batch, and I wouldn't have the same issue again. I wanted to get fruit flavor, but it didn't have prime shipping for some matter, so I got bubblegum again. It arrived last night and I just tried it.....same problem. And of course this isn't returnable and there's no way to contact the seller directly, so I'm making a last ditch effort here to make this right, because I'm currently out $40 and that's a lot for gum. Unless I can get a refund and an assurance this isn't going to happen with future purchases, I'm going to have to move to a different product because I can't keep doing this and risk wasting money.Sorry for the gross photo of my garbage can, but the white liquid pictured is what the gum turns into.

Best way to describe this gum. The right amount of energy, a good running aid.This is definitely quality of life (QoL) not an absolute need.