UCLA researchers found that chewing gum can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into the saliva and ...

Gum chewing independently arose across different cultures and regions at different times, says Jennifer Mathews, an anthropologist at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. In Mexico, for instance, ...

for example bubble gum or sugar-free gum, she says. Kahn leans toward limiting gum. “It can’t hurt to be cautious,” she says. “If gum chewing is a source of microplastics, then it probably ...

“Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a type of plastic ...