Chewing gum may be releasing thousands of microplastics in your mouth, new research suggests A large stick of gum could release more than 3,000 microplastics into your mouth, a new study suggests.

On average, they found about 100 particles per gram of chewing gum, although some samples reached up to 600 particles per gram. If we take into account that a piece usually weighs between 2 and 6 ...

Still, a gum-chewing habit could add up. Based on their findings, the researchers calculated that someone who chews 160 to 180 small sticks of gum per year would ingest about 30,000 microplastic ...

Benefits of Chewing Gum Despite the concerns and downsides, gum isn’t all bad. In fact, dentists say that when used correctly, it can help your oral health.

The authors were surprised to find that chewing natural gums didn’t really make a difference. The average number of microplastics in 1 gram of synthetic gum was 104, and in natural gum it was 96.

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Q: Mint gum is the only thing that gets me through the workday. Is all that chewing bad for my health? If you’re a regular gum chewer, you’re in good company. In one 2019 study of over 3,000 U ...

In his own research, Jones found that most pieces of gum weigh around 1.4 grams — which would mean that nearly 2.4 million tons, or about 5.4 billion pounds, of gum are manufactured every single ...