The Most Important Ingredient in Chewing Gum
By the time Wrigley began his business venture, Americans had grown accustomed to chewing gum sold as candy-coated balls or ...
If You Chew Gum, This Is How Many Pieces of Microplastic You Could Be Ingesting Every Year
A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum shed microplastics, with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces ...
Chewing gum can shed hundreds of microplastics into your mouth
“Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a type of plastic ...
Microplastics linked to 3 chronic diseases — and now they’ve been detected in gum
A new study suggests that you could be ingesting thousands of microplastics every time you chew gum. This discovery comes ...
Chewing gum is shedding harmful microplastics into your saliva, study finds
Chewing gum, whether natural or synthetic, contains plant-based or synthetic plastic polymers to enhance texture and flavor ...
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The unseen dangers in your favorite chewing gum
New study finds chewing gum releases up to 637 microplastic particles in just minutes, with 94% released in the first 8 ...
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Your chewing gum may be full of microplastics
Chewing gum could release hundreds to thousands of microplastic particles into your saliva, a new UCLA study finds.
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Chewing Gum Could Release Thousands of Microplastics Into Saliva, Study Finds
Synthetic rubber bases from a petroleum-based polymer (plastic) are used for synthetic gums. The researchers examined five ...
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Chewing Gum Contributes to Microplastic Ingestion
Chewing gum contains plant-based or synthetic plastic polymers, making it a potential source of microplastics; however, the ...