If You Chew Gum, This Is How Many Pieces of Microplastic You Could Be Ingesting Every Year
A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum shed microplastics, with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces ...
Chewing gum can shed hundreds of microplastics into your mouth
“Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a type of plastic ...
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Chewing Gum Is Flooding Your Mouth With Microplastics
Researchers found that chomping on a single stick of chewing gum can release up to thousands of shards of microplastics.
Chewing Gum Releases Thousands of Microplastics Into Our Saliva, Researchers Find
Researchers tested ten different chewing gum brands, and found no difference between synthetic and natural gum.
The Most Important Ingredient in Chewing Gum
By the time Wrigley began his business venture, Americans had grown accustomed to chewing gum sold as candy-coated balls or ...
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Your chewing gum may be full of microplastics
Chewing gum could release hundreds to thousands of microplastic particles into your saliva, a new UCLA study finds.
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Gum Can Release Thousands of Tiny Plastic Particles Into Your Mouth
A new study showed that chewing gum releases microplastics, which can then be swallowed and absorbed by the body.
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Chewing gum releases microplastics into mouth, say researchers
They found that a gram (0.04 ounces) of gum released an average of 100 microplastic fragments, though some shed more than 600. The average weight of a stick of gum is around 1.5 grams. People who ...