If you enjoy a refreshing stick of gum now and then, you may be biting off more than you should chew. A recent pilot study found that chewing gum ... an average of 100 microplastics were ...

The person chewed each piece of gum for four minutes, and spat out samples of saliva every 30 seconds, before ... chewing itself is rough enough to cause the plastic to break off. After eight ...

By the time Wrigley began his business venture, Americans had grown accustomed to chewing ... what modern gum really is. For anyone worried about swallowing still more plastic, after all, gum ...