The Most Important Ingredient in Chewing Gum
When you chew gum, you’re essentially gnawing on plastic.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 may be releasing thousands of microplastics in your mouth, new research suggests
A large stick of gum could release more than 3,000 microplastics into your mouth, a new study suggests. Here’s what that ...
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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 Gum Is Shedding Microplastics into Your Saliva
The rate at which chewing gum releases microplastics in saliva is quite astonishing. The test suggests that within eight ...
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Gum Can Release Thousands of Tiny Plastic Particles Into Your Mouth
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 ...