Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70403, Taiwan, ROC Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University ...

The base of these chewing gums was made from natural substances such as spruce resin and chicle, a natural latex that Aztecs and Mayans chewed for hundreds if not thousands of years. Unfortunately ...

“Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a type of plastic,” Lowe said in the release. Instead, “both synthetic and natural ...

To the authors’ knowledge, their study is the first “that examined or compared microplastics in chewing gums available commercially,” Mohanty added. The team’s findings are based on 10 ...

To fill this gap, Mohanty and Lisa Lowe, an engineering student also at the University of California, Los Angeles, set out to study the ingestion of microplastics from natural and synthetic gums.

So, Mohanty and a graduate student in his lab, Lisa Lowe, wanted to identify how many microplastics a person could potentially ingest from chewing natural and synthetic gums. Chewing gums are made ...

Chewing gums are made from a rubber base, sweetener, flavorings, and other ingredients. In general, natural gums use plant-based polymers (sometimes called bioplastics) and synthetic gums use ...

So, Mohanty and a graduate student in his lab, Lisa Lowe, wanted to identify how many microplastics a person could potentially ingest from chewing natural and synthetic gums. Chewing gums are made ...

Both synthetic and natural gums were found to contain microplastics. While the long-term effects of exposure to microplastics are not well understood, emerging evidence has suggested several ...

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