His boss was Mexican President Santa Anna ... in the rainforest for the 4-month-long rainy season when the Sapodilla sap flowed. Trees slashed using sharp machetes could be tapped only five ...

The Mexican government had only recently regained control of Quintana Roo, which had the largest stands of sapodilla trees, after nearly a half century of Maya resistance. During this Caste War ...

You see, the sap of this Mexican and Central American plant was the original source for chicle used to make chewing gum – a process discovered by the Mayan Empire. Sapodilla tree’s small ...

He fought the Spanish and led the Mexican army in the country’s fight ... A supply of chicle: the flavorless, chewy sap of the sapodilla tree, which, like many in Mexico, Santa Anna was fond ...

The sticky problem involves the long-lasting, synthetic chewing gum base used since the 1940s to replace the latex-like chicle resin that ancient Mayans had long collected from the Sapodilla tree.

Ancient Greeks munched bark. For centuries the Mayans and Aztecs chewed chicle, a resin from the Mexican sapodilla tree that arrived in New York in the 19th century. It was the Americans who found ...

In a little-known chapter of Big Apple history, the Mexican villain of the infamous ... the waxy part of the sapodilla tree, to manufacture carriage tires. He never turned a profit, but the ...

Miguel Ángel Díaz walks slowly so his footfall on dry leaves doesn't drive away what he's trying to find in this dense forest of seeded breadnut and sapodilla trees. Coming to a small wetland ...

But like the sapodilla trees that can live for hundreds of years ... The modern chewing gum was created by American scientist Thomas Adams in the 19th century after former Mexican leader Antonio Lopez ...