When Nate Mal suffered through an excruciating toothache that led to an extraction, he made an unlikely pivot: He decided to revolutionize chewing gum. After discovering that conventional gum bases ...
The base for conventional chewing gum contains food-grade plastic polymers. Natural gums, however, are known for their non-synthetic ingredients like tree sap and plant-based wax. But a researcher at ...
(CNN) — Are you keeping a mental list of all the sources of microplastics finding their way into your daily life? You may have another culprit to consider: It’s gum, according to a new pilot study ...