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

If you enjoy a refreshing stick of gum now ... synthetic gum brands and five brands of natural gum. The study did not release the brand names of the gums that were tested. Most chewing gums ...

Generations of Americans have grown up using chewing gum, but a new pilot study ... what we wanted to examine here.” A total of 10 brands of gum were tested The study involved testing five ...

Chewing gum contains long molecules called polymers. Some brands of gum contain natural polymers from tree sap. Others contain synthetic polymers derived from the petroleum industry. These various ...

Not to burst your perfectly blown bubble, but it turns out that ... microplastics seeping into our food. With gum, it literally is our food. Brands produced by manufacturers like Wrigley, you ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds ... plastic pieces enter our bodies—chewing gum. Lisa Lowe, a Ph.D. student at UCLA, chewed seven pieces each of 10 brands of gum, before the researchers then ...

Furthermore, Nuud chewing gum founder Keir Carner claimed there were “American brands that purport to be natural but use a plastic gum base and because of the legislation they don’t list the plastic ...

Given this evaluation, Mohanty and his colleagues decided to investigate the amount of microplastics that’s being released by chewing gum. They tested 10 commercially available brands ...

SAN DIEGO, March 25, 2025 — Plastic is everywhere. And many products we use in everyday life, such as cutting boards, clothes and cleaning sponges, can expose people to tiny, micrometer-wide plastic ...