It described the amount of microplastics found in human brains and how their concentration has increased over the last decade. The topic of micro- and nanoplastics (MNP) is a vast one because they are ...

Most accounts of the history of chewing gum take us back a couple of millenia to the Mayans of Mesoamerica who tasted the sap of the sapodilla tree and discovered that it did not disintegrate in the ...

In the UK in February, plastic-free gum brand Nuud teamed up with plastic-free pollution company City to Sea to call on the UK government to ban plastic gum and for better labelling. The UK consumes ...

FOOD we eat can lift our mood and support our mental health. Eating chocolates or our favorite sweets induces the secretion of happy hormones in us. Those hormones include ...

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

A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles has discovered that there are microplastics in chewing gum. Both ...

Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers – similar to the plastic material used in car ...

The study found that most microplastics were released within the first two minutes of chewing. Lisa Lowe, a graduate student ...

UCLA researchers found that chewing gum can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into the saliva and ...

UCLA researchers found a sticky side effect in a primary ingredient for gum—but they also offer a stay-fresh strategy that's ...

Some plastic pieces are endocrine disruptors, interfering with brain-function-regulating hormones. This may influence mood, ...