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

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

(CNN) - If you like chewing gum, you may be surprised to learn that you are bringing in potentially hundreds of microplastics into your mouth. Researchers at the University of California in Los ...

According to a pilot study presented during the American Chemical Society’s spring meeting, a single piece of chewing ... gum. From there, the microplastics were counted after staining them red ...

You may have another culprit to consider: It’s gum, according to a new pilot study that found chewing just one piece can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva. The study is ...

Chewing a single piece ... released from each piece of gum. The team measured the number of microplastic particles in each sample by staining the particles red and counting them under a microscope ...

(CNN) - If you like chewing gum, you may be surprised to learn that you are bringing in potentially hundreds of microplastics into your mouth. Researchers at the University of California in Los ...