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

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

UCLA researchers found that chewing gum can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into the saliva and ...

Gum chewing independently arose across different cultures and regions at different times, says Jennifer Mathews, an ...

UCLA researchers found a sticky side effect in a primary ingredient for gum—but they also offer a stay-fresh strategy that's ...

You could swallow them when you drink from single-use plastic water bottles. Now another source of microplastics in the body ...

Chewing gum fiends might want to think twice before popping in another piece of gum. A pilot study found that chewing gum can ...

Chewing gum may expose the body to microplastics. UCLA scientists identified tiny particles that break off and enter the body ...

In the UK in February, plastic-free gum brand Nuud teamed up with plastic-free pollution company City to Sea to call on the UK government to ban plastic gum and for better labelling. The UK consumes ...

Most accounts of the history of chewing gum take us back a couple of millenia to the Mayans of Mesoamerica who tasted the sap of the sapodilla tree and discovered that it did not disintegrate in the ...