A recent study has suggested that chewing gums helps to improve oral health by removing around 100 million bacteria from mouth in just 10 minutes. Netherland's University of Groningen researchers found out that chewing gum traps the bacteria within the mouth and when gum is spitted out, bacteria along with the gums goes out.

As part of the study, five biomedical engineering students were asked to chew two types of chewing gums for different period of time i.e, from 30 seconds to 10 minutes. After the given time, they were asked to spit the gum in sterile water for analysis. The gum had about 100 million bacteria and researchers were shocked to see this. Also they analysed that the more time we chew the gum, the more bacteria gets trapped to the gum.

The study was published in the journal PLOS ONE.

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