Chewing gum may release thousands of microplastics into the saliva, study says Even natural gums weren't plastic-free, researchers said, as others push back By Gretchen Eichenberg Fox News ...

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Chewing sugar-free gum can be helpful for your oral health, as well as for people looking to manage their weight, they say. But if you're not already someone who chews gum, you don't need to go ...

Study Subject Chewed Each Piece of Gum for 4 or 20 Minutes. To find out more about microplastics and chewing gum, scientists analyzed 10 popular chewing gum brands, five natural and five synthetic.

Extrapolating this further, a 2–6 gram piece of gum may release as many as 3,000 microplastics. Multiply that by the average amount of gum chewed annually, that you could be looking at around ...

Your Favorite Gum Is Shedding Microplastics, According to a New UCLA Study. Researchers found that chewing gum — from both synthetic and natural brands — released an average of 100 plastic ...

The study estimated that an average person chewing 160 to 180 sticks of gum per year could ingest approximately 30,000 microplastics, significantly increasing the overall annual intake of ...

The release says large pieces of gum release up to 3,000 pieces of.microplastic into saliva — and estimates that if someone chews up to 180 sticks of gum a year, they could consume 30,000 pieces ...

There is little research on the issue, but in one 2005 study of 31 people who were prone to acid reflux, researchers found that chewing sugar-free gum for 30 minutes after eating heartburn ...