Researchers at UCLA found that chewing gum – even gum labeled "natural" – can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into saliva and potentially be ingested.

Through deployed soldiers, more and more people were exposed to gum as a commodity item. “That’s really one of the reasons chewing gum spread around the world.

Chewing gum may shed microplastics into saliva, a new study has found.

After an hour of gum chewing, the saliva collected contained more than 250,000 pieces of micro and nano plastics—comparable to the level of microplastics found in a liter of bottled water.

Chewing a single piece of gum can release hundreds to thousands of pieces of microplastic into the saliva in your mouth—likely to go on to be swallowed.

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Researchers at UCLA have produced a study that concludes commercially-available chewing gum brands expose users to thousands of microplastics.