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

New research shows that chewing gum can release hundreds or possibly thousands of microplastics into saliva, which may then be absorbed into the body. Even all-natural gum sheds microplastics when ...

The gum became so popular that Wrigley gave up the baking powder business and went into chewing gum production. It turned out to be a good decision. By 1920, the average American was chewing 105 ...

The Chewing Gum of the Americas, From the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley. Aztecs also chewed natural bitumen, a petroleum-based material similar to asphalt that often washes up on shorelines ...

The researchers examined both synthetic gum and natural alternatives made with plant-based polymers such as tree sap. (Image: Canva) Chewing gum may be quietly introducing tiny plastic fragments ...

Chewing gum has been added to the growing list of things that lead us to ingest hundreds and thousands of microplastics. But is it really surprising considering gum is pretty much made of plastic?

Now another source of microplastics in the body has been discovered: chewing gum. Chewing gum contains long molecules called polymers. Some brands of gum contain natural polymers from tree sap.

Not to burst your perfectly blown bubble, but it turns out that chewing gum ... With gum, it literally is our food. Brands produced by manufacturers like Wrigley, you may be horrified to learn ...

The world's biggest chewing gum manufacturer, Wrigley, did not respond to AFP's request for comment. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics into your mouth, a new study suggests. Chewing gum's base ingredient is synthetic rubber, which is a type of plastic. A stick of gum is ...