A study reveals that by chewing gum we could be releasing hundreds of microplastics into our mouths. What does this mean for ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics into your mouth, a new study suggests. Chewing gum's base ingredient is synthetic rubber, which is a type of plastic. A stick of gum is ...

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 ...

Now, researchers have added chewing gum to the growing list of products that expose humans to microplastics. A team of researchers has revealed that chewing a single stick of gum can release ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A recent study found that chewing gum can release up to thousands of microplastics per piece and potentially be ingested, according to researchers. Lisa Lowe and Jamie ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...