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

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

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people's mouths, researchers said on Tuesday, also warning of the pollution created by the rubber-based sweet.

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 ... have increasingly been finding small shards of plastic called microplastics throughout the world, from the tops of mountains to the bottom ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research by Queen’s University Belfast has found that chewing gum can release over a quarter of a million microplastics and detectable ... leading marketing data and analytics company, today ...

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 ...

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