a chewing gum candy confection product prepared by mixing a melted chewing gum base with a cooked hard candy sorbitol syrup at a temperature which renders the gum base and the cooked candy syrup miscible under mild blending conditions to form a substantially single phase continuous plastic chewing gum candy mass . the mass is mildly blended under controlled cooling so that substantially no air is introduced into the mixture . additives such as flavoring , coloring and bio - effecting agents are optionally incorporated under continued mild blending conditions . finally , the product is cooled to a hard candy matrix containing chewing gum therein , such matrix suitable for scoring and cutting and for grinding into a particulate and / or a powder .