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Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, pilot study finds (www.acs.org)

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

How do gum bases not made of plastic give off plastic? Chicle and other natural gum bases come from plants.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Your question made me wonder - what if the plants had micro plastics lol.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

They do, and it's affecting photosynthesis 😅

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yaaaaaaaaay

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I don't know, I just quoted the study.

My theory as a non-scientist would be that the plastics aren't from the gum at all, but the gums and tongue which are apparently already full of them, according to random things on the Internet.

But that just shows how stupid it is to ask me

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