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

By the time Wrigley began his business venture, Americans had grown accustomed to chewing gum sold as candy-coated balls or ...

And if you redecorate your home and sand down the old paintwork, the plastic binders in the paint can release microplastics ...

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 ...

with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces Getty Chewing gum can shed microplastics — and natural and synthetic gums contain “similar amounts of microplastics.” Each stick of gum ...

While many associate the satisfying chew of gum with fresh breath and stress relief, few realize they might be exposing themselves to hundreds of microscopic plastic particles with each piece.

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

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