By the time Wrigley began his business venture, Americans had grown accustomed to chewing gum sold as candy-coated balls or ...

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

Binning gum is not the solution either. Addressing gum as a plastic pollutant dictates that the prevention of gum pollution ...

Most chewing gum contains a synthetic gum base that binds the ingredients together, but that isn't even the worst of it. Jones pointed to a 2014 chemical analysis by the University of Arkansas that ...

Yum! Eventually most of the sweetener and flavoring slide down your throat with your saliva and the great taste becomes a memory. Gum base does not dissolve in saliva. This is why you lose the flavor, ...

Chewing gum may expose the body to microplastics. UCLA scientists identified tiny particles that break off and enter the body ...

A researcher has identified a surprising source of plastic pollution: chewing gum. In an essay for The Conversation, microplastics expert David Jones of the UK's University of Portsmouth revealed ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Bubble gum starts out with gum base, then flavorings and sweeteners are added. When it's all mixed up, it looks like a giant pink monster. The way it's streamlined ...

Most, if not all, gum product labels and websites do not disclose what their gum base includes nor how they are processed. This lack of transparency also leaves researchers “no way to know where ...

Annually, 2.436 million tons of gum are produced globally, with over 730,000 tons being synthetic gum base. Efforts to address this issue include recycling initiatives and promoting plant-based ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...