Chewing gum has been discovered to remove harmful
bacteria from mouths, according to a new study. The Daily
Mail has more:
Researchers found that just a single piece of chewing gum
can remove 100 million bacteria – 10 per cent of the
microbial load in saliva – in ten minutes. And they say
that gum can be just as effective as flossing – although
they each targets different areas of the mouth. The study,
which appeared in the journal Plos One, was led by
researchers from the University of Groningen in the
Netherlands.
They found that the gum was most effective in the first 30
seconds of chewing, and after that it would become less
effective in trapping bacteria on a sliding scale.
Also, they note that only gum that did not contain sugar
was useful; if it did contain sugar, it could ‘feed’ oral
bacteria. In one of their experiments, known numbers of
bacteria were finger-chewed into the mouths of
participants, and they were then asked to chew gum for 10
minutes.
The researchers found that about 100 million bacteria were
detected on each piece of chewed gum, with the number
increasing as chewing time increased. ‘Trapped bacteria
were clearly visualised in chewed gum using scanning-
electron-microscopy,’ they wrote in their paper. They used
two unnamed brands of spearming gum in their study.

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