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

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

Mohanty said his wife stopped chewing gum altogether after hearing their results. "Why eat chewing gum and directly ingest plastics? Chewing gum is non-essential," Mohanty said. If you do chew ...

And these oysters aren't for eating. We don't eat the ... 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 ...

The researchers' analysis revealed that the lion's share of the microplastics were released from the gum in the first two minutes of chewing—thanks to the mechanical action, rather than the enzymatic ...