Chewing a single piece of gum could release ... between 160 and 180 small pieces of gum a year could swallow around 30,000 microplastics. However, one expert believes an issue with the experiment ...

More than 250,000 microplastics (MPs) were detected in the saliva of a person after one hour of chewing a single piece of gum, a new study has revealed. The research findings, led by Queen’s ...

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 ...

Knowing this, Lowe recommends chewing one piece of gum as long as possible before moving on to the next stick. The final tallies indicate chewers can expect an average of at least 100 ...

Most pieces of gum are between 2 and 6 grams, so that means a large piece could release as many as 3,000 microplastics. By some estimates, Americans average one to three pieces a day, but looking ...

To get fewer microplastics from gum, chew one piece longer rather than popping a new piece. Worried about the increasing presence of microplastics in our environment? Here’s something else to ...

To lower the risk of being exposed to microplastics from gum, Ms Lowe suggests chewing one piece for longer instead of starting a new one. The study could only identify larger microplastics ...

So if you want to reduce your potential exposure to microplastics from gum, Lowe suggested chewing one piece for a longer time instead of popping a new one. Mohanty also urged people to “be mind ...

For the study, one person in the lab chewed seven pieces from each brand separately. The person was asked to chew a piece of gum for four minutes, producing samples of saliva each time.