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What's your favourite type of gum?
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Almost all chewing gum contains plastic, and as such stands to be a big source of microplastics in your body (and the environment, especially when not disposed of "properly").
In the US, companies are allowed to list "gum base" in the ingredients when the "gum base" could mean anything - but it almost always means PVA (polyvinylacetate; a plasticizer).
Some gum marketed to people who realize this uses chicle, as gum originally did, or some other non-plastic, but it needs to explicitly state this. "Gum base" = "not telling you" = undoubtedly chewing microplastics into your body.