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When you chew gum, you’re essentially gnawing on plastic.

Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people's mouths, researchers said on Tuesday, also warning ...

"Most manufacturers just don’t advertise what gum is actually made of — they dodge around the detail by listing 'gum base' in the ingredients." While there are no hard and fast statistics ...

A SINGLE piece of chewing gum releases thousands of toxic microplastics into your mouth to be swallowed, scientists have ...

A new study found that chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva. Both synthetic and natural ...

But chewing gum’s impact on our ingestion of microplastics isn’t ... set out to study the ingestion of microplastics from natural and synthetic gums. While natural gums are made from plant-based ...