Orbit, also sold in some markets as Extra, Freedent or Yida, is a brand of sugarless chewing gum from the Wrigley Company. In the United States, where it was re-launched in 2001,[1] it is sold in cardboard boxes with 14 individually wrapped pieces per package.
History
The Orbit name in chewing gums dates back to the early 20th century. It was made as Orbit Listerated Gum, by the Common Sense Co. (later known as Listerated Gum Corp.).[2][3] The Orbit trademark went to Wrigley when it bought Listerated Gum Corp in 1925.[4]
Wrigley marketed an Orbit gum in 1940s in the United States as a replacement brand by Wrigley due to rationing of gum-making ingredients in World War II.