Deborah Meaden explained she loved what Mr Carnie was doing but it didn't mean it was a good investment for her. Touker Souleyman explained he can’t fault Mr Carnie but the only thing that looked credible was him. Chewing gum occasions and consumer appetite fell off a cliff with retailers reporting a 50%+ reduction in gum sales, delaying our launch with a number of key customers.”

Yep, you read that right! Regular chewing gum is a single-use plastic. In the UK alone, some 100,000 tons of it is chewed every year, and 95% of the country’s streets are stained with it. She said that once people find out that the market leaders are using plastic in their gum products, they will spend millions just changing their own products, they would not acquire the small businesses already making plastic free gum.

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Jamie and I were blown away with Keir [Carnie, founder] and the business– a brand that is taking on one of the biggest environmental issues in confectionery, with a product that tastes and looks great,” said Williams.

He gave the example of the oat milk brand Oatly. This brand charges two times the amount of normal milk but and has “smashed the milk category” with their plant-based variant. This has enabled Nuud to build a supply chain suitable for further growth and begin to expand our team,” he said. With its biodegradable chewing gum, the brand is on a mission to rid the world of plastic gum, as well as educate consumers about the amount of single-use plastic used in regular gum – which Nuud claims is ‘as much as a drinking straw in one piece’. An entrepreneur from Bristol appears to be well on his way to proving the Dragons' Den tycoons wrong. He advised Keir to start selling in more retailers and get Nuud's margins down, urging him not to be disheartened but adding the business was "probably not investable at the moment".

The new brand aims to highlight the plastic waste issues associated with regular gum and offer a natural, sustainable alternative. He said: "I would relate this to the craft beer boom and Heineken was slow to react to that boom. What they ended up doing five, six seven years later, was investing in market-leading disruptors that had showed more adaptability to changing consumer trends.Polyethylene is used in plastic bags and is also one of the main culprits behind the 21 million tonnes of micro-plastics thought to be in the Atlantic Ocean . Funds will be used to boost the brand’s headcount, develop NPD, and increase brand awareness - as well as for working capital. It uses a tree sap called chicle in the place of plastic in its gum base, which it claims helps the gum biodegrade naturally “like a banana skin”.