{"id":210025,"date":"2025-03-29T13:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/chewing-gum-releases-hundreds-of-microplastics-in-your-mouth-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-03-29T13:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:10:01","slug":"chewing-gum-releases-hundreds-of-microplastics-in-your-mouth-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/chewing-gum-releases-hundreds-of-microplastics-in-your-mouth-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Chewing Gum Releases Hundreds of Microplastics In Your Mouth, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chewing-gum-releases-hundreds-of-microplastics-in-your-mouth-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people\u2019s mouths, researchers said on Tuesday, also warning of the pollution created by the rubber-based sweet.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acs.org\/pressroom\/presspacs\/2025\/march\/chewing-gum-can-shed-microplastics-into-saliva-pilot-study-finds.html\">small study<\/a> comes as researchers have increasingly been finding small shards of plastic called microplastics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/7000-microplastics-studies-show-we-have-one-really-big-problem\">throughout the world<\/a>, from the tops of mountains to the bottom of the ocean \u2013 and even in the air we breathe.<\/p>\n<p>They have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/microplastics-found-in-every-human-placenta-tested-study-finds\">discovered microplastics<\/a> riddled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-confirm-microplastics-now-detected-in-human-testicles\">throughout human bodies<\/a> \u2013 including inside our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/microplastics-suspected-to-cause-fertility-gut-and-lung-issues-warns-new-review\">lungs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/microplastics-found-in-blood-clots-in-heart-brain-and-legs\">blood<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/microplastics-could-accumulate-in-our-brains-more-than-in-kidneys-and-livers\">brains<\/a> \u2013 sparking fears about the potential effect this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/microplastics-detected-infiltrating-human-brains-for-the-first-time\">could be having on health<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chewing gum releases hundreds of tiny plastic pieces straight into people\u2019s mouths, researchers said on Tuesday, also warning of the pollution created by the rubber-based sweet. The small study comes as researchers have increasingly been finding small shards of plastic called microplastics throughout the world, from the tops of mountains to the bottom of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}