What you don't see (but is) in every piece of chewing gum. UCLA study expands the invisible map of microplastics in our daily lives. While science continues to investigate their possible long-term ...

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A SINGLE piece of chewing gum releases thousands of toxic microplastics into your mouth to be swallowed, scientists have warned. Tiny plastic particles shed by everyday items like cutting boards ...

Study Subject Chewed Each Piece of Gum for 4 or 20 Minutes. To find out more about microplastics and chewing gum, scientists analyzed 10 popular chewing gum brands, five natural and five synthetic.

Chewing a single piece of gum can release hundreds to thousands of pieces of microplastic into the saliva in your mouth—likely to go on to be swallowed.. This is the warning of researchers from ...

A single individual chewed each piece of gum for four minutes, with saliva samples collected every 30 seconds and a final mouth rinse. In a separate experiment, samples were collected over 20 ...

Extrapolating this further, a 2–6 gram piece of gum may release as many as 3,000 microplastics. Multiply that by the average amount of gum chewed annually, that you could be looking at around ...

Not to burst your bubble, but your gum might be packed with plastic. A new study found that chewing a single piece releases hundreds — if not thousands — of microplastics into your saliva ...

A single individual chewed each piece of gum for four minutes, with saliva samples collected every 30 seconds and a final mouth rinse. In a separate experiment, samples were collected over 20 ...

The release says large pieces of gum release up to 3,000 pieces of.microplastic into saliva — and estimates that if someone chews up to 180 sticks of gum a year, they could consume 30,000 pieces ...

Researchers at UCLA found that chewing gum – even gum labeled "natural" – can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into saliva and potentially be ingested.

In one 2019 study of over 3,000 U.S. teens and adults, 62 percent reported munching on gum over the past six months; and on average, they chewed about one piece per day. Gum chewing can affect ...