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Chewing Gum, Microplastics

Futurism on MSN · 9h

Chewing Gum Is Flooding Your Mouth With Microplastics

Not to burst your perfectly blown bubble, but it turns out that chewing gum may be flooding your mouth with microplastics. As detailed in a pilot study which is awaiting peer-review, a team of researchers found that chomping down on just one stick of the rubbery candy releases up to thousands of microplastic shards into your saliva.

Chewing Gum Releases Thousands of Microplastics Into Our Saliva, Researchers Find

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

Newsweek on MSN · 5d

Chewing Gum Releases Microplastics Into Your Mouth, Scientists Warn

The researchers' analysis revealed that the lion's share of the microplastics were released from the gum in the first two minutes of chewing—thanks to the mechanical action, rather than the enzymatic properties of saliva—reaching 94 percent within eight minutes.

Interesting Engineering on MSN5d

Chewing gum dirty secret: Bubble gum detonates microplastic bombs in your mouth

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

1don MSN

The Most Important Ingredient in Chewing Gum

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

5don MSN

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 ...

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