Porto881@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoYou don't really see people chewing gum anymore.message-square122fedilinkarrow-up1171arrow-down138
arrow-up1133arrow-down1message-squareYou don't really see people chewing gum anymore.Porto881@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square122fedilink
minus-squareguyrocket@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down2·1 year agoDoesn’t help anything that most “gum base” has PLASTIC in it.
minus-squareStereoTrespasser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·edit-21 year agoYea I loved gum right up until the recent study clearly linking microplastics in the body and chewing gum.
minus-squareImmersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-29 months agodeleted by creator
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·11 months agoTurns out the flavor crystals were just ground up spoons
minus-squarefrunch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoI’m just gonna go ahead and believe this without further research, that’s too good an explanation to let go of, lol
minus-squareXTL@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoPaging NileRed, can we make gum flavor from plastic spoons?
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down23·1 year agoWell your bowl of ice cream has carbon in it. Does it matter? No
minus-squareDarkenLM@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 months agoA good chunk of the atoms in our bodies are carbon, yet we don’t see plastic being naturally created on our bodies, now do we?
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopolymer
minus-squareDarkenLM@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoFYI, not all polymers are plastics. All plastics are polymers, but it’s not a double equivalence.
minus-squareNefara@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-21 year agoYou’d probably mind if your ice cream had lead in it. Microplastics will be the lead poisoning of the new century. They’re carcinogens and endocrine disruptors and we don’t even know the full extent of the effects they have.
minus-squarelobut@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 year agoYeah the microplastics in gum thing really threw me off when I found out about it.
Doesn’t help anything that most “gum base” has PLASTIC in it.
Yea I loved gum right up until the recent study clearly linking microplastics in the body and chewing gum.
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Turns out the flavor crystals were just ground up spoons
I’m just gonna go ahead and believe this without further research, that’s too good an explanation to let go of, lol
Paging NileRed, can we make gum flavor from plastic spoons?
Well your bowl of ice cream has carbon in it. Does it matter? No
A good chunk of the atoms in our bodies are carbon, yet we don’t see plastic being naturally created on our bodies, now do we?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopolymer
FYI, not all polymers are plastics. All plastics are polymers, but it’s not a double equivalence.
You’d probably mind if your ice cream had lead in it. Microplastics will be the lead poisoning of the new century. They’re carcinogens and endocrine disruptors and we don’t even know the full extent of the effects they have.
Yeah the microplastics in gum thing really threw me off when I found out about it.