Long before chewing gum came in shiny foil wrappers with watermelon flavors and whitening promises, our ancestors were ...

Bubble gum was invented in 1906, but it only became popular in 1928, when Walter Diemer, an accountant at the Fleer Chewing Gum Company with an inventive streak, developed Dubble Bubble.

The first marketable bubble gum, Dubble Bubble was invented by Walter Diemer, a 23-year-old accountant with chewing-gum maker Fleer Co. of Philadelphia. (Felix Choo/Alamy Stock Photo) ...

Humans have a fondness for chewing on things they don't actually eat, a habit that literally goes back thousands of years.

Chewing gum may shed microplastics into saliva, a new study has found. Ad Feedback. Health. Life, But Better Fitness Food Sleep ...

Somewhere between 9,500 and 9,900 years ago, three Scandinavian teenagers were hanging out, chewing gum after a meal. Specifically, they were chewing pitch or tar made from the bark of birch trees.

Commercial chewing gum became available in the United States in 1848 and continued to evolve throughout the following decades. Bubblegum’s story begins in 1928, when 24-year-old Walter Diemer ...

You may have another culprit to consider: It’s gum, according to a new pilot study that found chewing just one piece can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva.