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

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

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

A recent study reveals that chewing gum can expose users to over 250,000 microplastic particles per hour, raising health ...

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

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Department researchers published an article in Nature Medicine in late February ...

A study published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials reveals that chewing a piece of gum for one hour can result in ...

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 ...