Not to burst your perfectly blown bubble, but it turns out that chewing gum may be flooding your mouth with microplastics ... It's more of an open-ended question than you'd think.

Languages: English. 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. This is the warning ...

According to a pilot study presented during the American Chemical Society’s spring meeting, a single piece of chewing gum is liable ... taken after rinsing their mouth with clean water.