You could swallow them when you drink from single-use plastic water bottles. Now another source of microplastics in the body has been discovered: chewing gum. Chewing gum contains long molecules ...

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 ...

Chewing gum ... of synthetic gum and five of natural gum, which use plant-based polymers such as tree sap. "It was surprising that we found microplastics were abundant in both," Lowe told AFP. David ...

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.