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

And now, researchers are finding them in chewing gum. A pilot study revealed that chewing gum releases hundreds of these microplastics into your saliva per piece.  A team at the University of ...

Federica Bertocchini at the Margarita Salas Center for Biological Research and her colleagues have isolated unique, plastic-eating enzymes from the saliva of wax worms. These biological agents ...

The person was asked to chew a piece of gum for four minutes, producing samples of saliva each time ... because the base is a type of plastic,” Lowe said in a news release.

Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic less than five millimeters ... rate of microplastics from each piece of gum by collecting saliva samples periodically over a 20 minute stretch of time.

In contrast to invasive blood draws or tissue biopsies, saliva represents an easily accessible source of total nucleic acids—DNA and RNA from both the host and microbial sources. The OMNIgene™•SALIVA ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds of microplastics into saliva, which can accumulate in ... in the brain - the equivalent of an entire standard plastic spoon of nanoplastics. Microplastics are known ...

Their study was also limited in terms of exactly which microplastics they could identify in the saliva: They only looked for pieces of plastic bigger ... pieces for longer, collecting samples ...