Are you keeping a mental list of all the sources of microplastics finding their way into your daily life? You may have ...

Chewing gum can shed ... There are no human trials. But we know we are exposed to plastics in everyday life, and that’s what we wanted to examine here.” Getty Stock image of a small piece of gum.

Chewing gum fiends might want to think twice before popping in another piece of gum. A pilot study found that chewing gum can ...

If you enjoy a refreshing stick of gum now and then, you may be biting off more than you should chew. A recent pilot study found that chewing gum ... that there is no cause for alarm." ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics into your mouth, a new study suggests. Chewing gum's base ingredient is synthetic rubber, which is a type of plastic. A stick of gum is ...

New research has warned that each piece of chewing gum can release a potentially harmful number of microplastics into your saliva, which then might be swallowed.

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.

Chewing gum has been added to the growing list of things that lead us to ingest hundreds and thousands of microplastics. But is it really surprising considering gum is pretty much made of plastic?

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A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum shed microplastics, with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces Getty Chewing gum ... There are no human trials. But we know we are ...