When you chew gum, you’re essentially gnawing on plastic.

A recent study results suggests that chewing gum may release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva, which could ...

Microplastics —tiny plastic bits that can take hundreds of years to break down—are everywhere, from tap water to tea bags, ...

Analysis revealed that just 1 gram of chewing gum released approximately 100 microplastics on average, with 1 gram of some ...

with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces Getty Chewing gum can shed microplastics — and natural and synthetic gums contain “similar amounts of microplastics.” Each stick of gum ...

The researchers' analysis revealed that the lion's share of the microplastics were released from the gum in the first two ...

“Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a type of plastic ...

Now another source of microplastics in the body has been discovered: chewing gum. Chewing gum contains long molecules called polymers. Some brands of gum contain natural polymers from tree sap.

A recent study found that chewing gum can release up to thousands of microplastics per piece and potentially be ingested, ...

Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers—similar to the plastic material used in car ...

Plastic is everywhere. And many products we use in everyday life can expose people to tiny, micrometer-wide plastic particles ...