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Microplastics, super-tiny plastic fragments, are found in many of the products we use in everyday life. A pilot study by UCLA engineers found that microplastics are also present in chewing gum. The ...

Chewing a piece of gum spurs the production of saliva, which can protect your teeth from erosion by neutralizing the acidity in your mouth, said Dr. Peter Arsenault, a dentist and professor at ...

plastic foods Chewing gum releases microplastics into the mouth but it’s unclear how dangerous that is – yet Several brands contain polymers that are similar to plastics or are plastic.

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.

Chewing gum could be filling your mouth with hundreds of microplastics, study warns People who chew around 180 pieces of gum a year could be ingesting roughly 30,000 microplastics, the researchers ...

A large stick of gum could release more than 3,000 microplastics into your mouth, a new study suggests. Here’s what that means for your health.

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 ...

In the chewing gum study – which was presented at the American Chemical Society meeting 25 March – a single volunteer chewed ten brands of chewing gum – five natural and five synthetic.

Since a single piece of gum weighs 2-6g, eating one large piece of gum could release more than 3,000 microplastic particles into the mouth.