Chewing gum is an everyday item we often buy on a whim, chew for a little while, and then throw away without much thought. Since we don’t usually think of gum as food, many people don’t really ...

Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year . . . from our mouths. Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers—similar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research might make you rethink that gum habit. Chewing gum, whether natural or synthetic, contains plant-based or synthetic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics into your mouth, a new study suggests. Chewing gum's base ingredient ...

A health researcher has warned he wouldn’t want his own children chewing on gum because it exposes them to thousands of microplastic particles.