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You don't really see people chewing gum anymore. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Doesn't help anything that most "gum base" has PLASTIC in it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yea I loved gum right up until the recent study clearly linking microplastics in the body and chewing gum.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Really? I am not entirely surprised but did the study say how the plastic was getting in there?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Turns out the flavor crystals were just ground up spoons

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm just gonna go ahead and believe this without further research, that's too good an explanation to let go of, lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Paging NileRed, can we make gum flavor from plastic spoons?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Yeah the microplastics in gum thing really threw me off when I found out about it.