Gum is made of plastic, and chewing both synthetic and natural gums could release microplastics into your mouth, according to a new study.

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

Now another source of microplastics in the body has been discovered: chewing ... gum could shed hundreds or a few thousand microplastic particles into the mouth, where they probably ended up ...

Chew on this: Chewing gum can be good for you. Not only can it freshen your breath ... And that could add up to losing 10 pounds in a year. Perhaps the biggest benefit of chewing gum comes ...

plastic tea bags), but chewing gum is the only food that is made up of plastics. Yet, most don’t know. We wanted to measure microplastics in chewing gum. This is important to estimate total ...