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

And now, researchers are finding them in chewing gum. A pilot study revealed that chewing gum releases hundreds of these ...

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

A new study suggests that you could be ingesting thousands of microplastics every time you chew gum. This discovery comes ...

Researchers found that chomping on a single stick of chewing gum can release up to thousands of shards of microplastics.

Researchers tested ten different chewing gum brands, and found no difference between synthetic and natural gum.

A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum shed microplastics, with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces ...

The rate at which chewing gum releases microplastics in saliva is quite astonishing. The test suggests that within eight ...

A new study showed that chewing gum releases microplastics, which can then be swallowed and absorbed by the body.

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people's mouths, researchers said on Tuesday, also warning ...

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.

You may have another culprit to consider: It’s gum, according to a new pilot study that found chewing just one piece can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva. The study is ...