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

By the time Wrigley began his business venture, Americans had grown accustomed to chewing gum sold as candy-coated balls or packaged sticks. The base of these chewing gums was made from natural ...

A person happily gnawing away on a large piece of gum could unleash more than 3,000 microplastic particles, according to the ...

Microplastics are building up in human brains, blood, reproductive organs, and more. A new study suggests you ingest more plastic when you chew gum.

Chewing gum has a fascinating and storied history. Here is everything you need to know about how chewing gum became what it ...

Locals have been extracting the natural chicle gum base from the bark of the chicozapote trees for a century, a spokesman for Chicza told CNN. After years of exporting the gum base to be used as ...

Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering found that both natural and synthetic chewing gums release ...

Chicle, from which chewing gum is made, has advanced lately in price, and is now 10 cents higher than it was a year ago. There are five grades, corresponding to as many kinds of trees from which ...

The pair tested 10 brands of commercially available chewing gum, including five synthetic ... which use plant-based polymers like chicle or other tree sap. In the lab, a subject chewed seven ...