Not to burst your perfectly blown bubble, but it turns out that chewing gum may be flooding your mouth with microplastics. As detailed in a pilot study which is awaiting peer-review, a team of ...

Chewing a single piece of gum can release hundreds to thousands of pieces of microplastic into the saliva in your mouth—likely to go on to be swallowed.. This is the warning of researchers from ...

Some Chewing Gum Is Plastic. Most of us use products that expose us to microplastics each and every day. In fact, it's thought that our food, our drinks, and our plastic packaging can cause us to ...

The final tallies indicate chewers can expect an average of at least 100 microplastics per gram of gum, although that number can increase up to 600 particles per gram.

Study Subject Chewed Each Piece of Gum for 4 or 20 Minutes. To find out more about microplastics and chewing gum, scientists analyzed 10 popular chewing gum brands, five natural and five synthetic.

“When you eat chewing gum, you think you are getting the flavor. You are also getting some plastic with it,” he says. And Lowe also hopes this gets people thinking about how they dispose of ...

But chewing gum with sugar once in a while doesn’t pose major health risks, especially if you have good oral hygiene. Sugar-free gum has less than 0.5 grams of sugars per serving and uses ...

It's more of an open-ended question than you'd think. "I don't think you have to stop chewing gum just yet," Oliver Jones, a chemistry professor at Australia RMIT University who wasn't involved in ...

Most of us use products that expose us to microplastics each and every day. In fact, it’s thought that our food, our drinks, and our plastic packaging can cause us to ingest tens of thousands of ...

A single individual chewed each piece of gum for four minutes, with saliva samples collected every 30 seconds and a final mouth rinse. In a separate experiment, samples were collected over 20 ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people's mouths, researchers said on Tuesday, also warning of the pollution created by the rubber-based sweet.