Looking beyond jabs, sprays or tablets, scientists are thinking outside the box for delivering antiviral medication to ...

“Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a type of plastic ...

A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum ... of chewing, the release says, because the grinding of teeth causes the plastic to break off. “The plastic released into saliva is ...

Gum chewing independently arose across different cultures and regions at different times, says Jennifer Mathews, an anthropologist at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. In Mexico, for instance, ...

Chewing gum has a fascinating and storied history. Here is everything you need to know about how chewing gum became what it ...

Now, chewing ... the person chewed the piece of gum for 4 minutes, producing samples of saliva every 30 seconds, then a final mouth rinse with clean water, all of which got combined into a single ...

When chewing gum, most people tend to swallow their saliva, so if chewing gum is releasing microplastics into saliva that people are swallowing, that’s not great,” she told Healthline.

And many products we use in everyday life, such as cutting boards, clothes and cleaning sponges, can expose people ... chewing gum can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into ...

can expose people to tiny, micrometer-wide plastic particles called microplastics. Now, chewing gum could be added to the list. In a pilot study, researchers found that chewing gum can release ...