Microplastics are building up in human brains, blood, reproductive organs, and more. A new study suggests you ingest more plastic when you chew gum.

A person happily gnawing away on a large piece of gum could unleash more than 3,000 microplastic particles, according to the ...

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 ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into ... The small study comes as researchers have increasingly been finding small shards of plastic called microplastics throughout the ...

Surprisingly, microplastics were found in both the ... And we don’t know if chewing gum releases nanoplastics at all. The trouble is that nanoplastics are so tiny that they require specialised ...

T hink you're not eating microplastics? Think again. Researchers at UCLA have uncovered something unsettling: microplastics ...

Not to burst your perfectly blown bubble, but it turns out that chewing gum may be flooding your mouth with microplastics ... one stick of the rubbery candy releases up to thousands of ...

Gum chewing independently arose across different cultures and regions at different times, says Jennifer Mathews, an ...

The study found that chewing gum could release a surprisingly high amount of microplastics. On average, 100 microplastic ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, led by engineering professor Sanjay Mohanty, conducted the study to quantify the amount of microplastics released from chewing gum during ...

The gum shed almost all of the microplastics during the first eight minutes of chewing, she added. David Jones, a researcher at the UK’s University of Portsmouth not involved in the study ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces ... have increasingly been discovering small shards of plastic called microplastics throughout the world, from the tops of mountains to the ...