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.

UCLA researchers found that chewing gum can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into the saliva and potentially be ingested. A trade group asserted "gum is safe to enjoy." ...

Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering found that both natural and synthetic chewing gums release ...

A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles has discovered that there are microplastics in chewing gum. Both ...

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

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 ...

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

A person chewing 160 to 180 pieces of gum a year, they said, could potentially be ingesting 30,000 microplastics. And while the effect of ingested microplastics on human health still isn't clear ...

A recent pilot study found that chewing gum – even those labeled "natural" – can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into the body, according to researchers at the University of ...