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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

It might be tempting to swallow chewing gum if there’s no trash can nearby to dispose of it — but is it dangerous to do so? Two doctors share the answers to the age-old question.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adrien Brody won his second Oscar on Sunday night at the 97th Academy Awards, and he made sure to swiftly ditch his gum on the way to the Dolby Theatre stage.. After learning he'd won another Best ...