Now you can add your favorite chewing gum to the list, thanks to the alarming findings of a new study. Chewing gum, whether natural or synthetic, contains plant-based or synthetic plastic polymers to enhance texture and flavor retention,

Testing of saliva samples for 10 brands found a single piece could release up to 3,000 plastic particles, with natural and synthetic gums both found to contain similar amounts of microplastics.

Chewing gum could release hundreds to thousands of microplastic particles into your saliva, a new UCLA study finds.