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

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

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

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

Learn more about the tiny particles that can come off of your gum — what is essentially a soft piece of plastic — as you chew ...

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“Surprisingly, both synthetic and natural gums had similar amounts of microplastics released when we chewed them,” Lowe added. Most of the study’s gum shed the majority of its microplastics ...

open image in gallery Researchers announced this week that microplastics are also found in chewing gum. Exposure to the pieces depends on the size of the strips and how long they’re chewed ...

Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic less than five millimeters long, or smaller than a pencil eraser. They can be found in almost everything, including our air, water, food and apparently ...

By some estimates, Americans average one to three pieces a day, but looking at a conservative amount, if someone chewed 160 to 180 small sticks of gum a year, the researchers estimated that could ...