Remember those wax bottles filled with colored sugar water that you’d bite the top off, drink the sickeningly sweet liquid, then chew the tasteless wax for ... (now diplomatically renamed “candy ...

Researchers found that chomping on a single stick of chewing gum can release up to thousands of shards of microplastics.

Chewing gum can release thousands of microplastics into saliva. Scientists say more research is needed but suggest chewing ...

Researchers tested ten different chewing gum brands, and found no difference between synthetic and natural gum.

“Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a type of plastic ...

Barlome Town — A truck with chewing sticks parked near an open field. Some of the sticks lay on the ground. It had been parked for three weeks in Barlome Town on the Grand Bassa-River Cess highway.

A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum shed microplastics, with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces ...

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

Now another source of microplastics in the body has been discovered: chewing gum. Chewing gum contains long molecules called polymers. Some brands of gum contain natural polymers from tree sap.

Chewing gum releases hundreds of microplastics into saliva, which can accumulate in the body and potentially cause chronic diseases. Both natural and synthetic gums release similar amounts of ...

Chewing gum can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into the saliva that may be ingested. Research presented this week at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society in San ...