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 ...

Here is another special rare tropical fruit tree that can be grown at home in Costa Rica: sapodilla, or chicle zapote in Spanish, a native tree in our region. Besides being perhaps one of the ...

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 ...

I don’t know when the sapodilla tree at the café in Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden was planted. But since the 1970s, I’ve enjoyed numerous lunches under its dense, spreading canopy.

Great for making luscious desserts such as ice-cream, custards and mousses, sapodilla is an evergreen tree native to southern Mexico, Central America and right here in the Caribbean. Chef Kwesi ...

though historians say they likely used different techniques to extract the resin from the sapodilla (also called chico zapote) tree and make gum. The modern chewing gum was created by US scientist ...

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 ...

A cooperative of over 50 Mayan communities in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, where Sapodilla trees have been tapped for their sticky latex since before the Spanish conquest, will start selling ...

Unsustainable harvesting methods used to increase yields killed at least a quarter of Mexico's sapodilla trees by the mid-1930s ... In Britain this year, a small Mexican company called Chicza ...

Twenty years later, in 1869, a Mexican exile named General Antonio de Santa Anna and American photographer Thomas Adams introduced chicle, a resin, from the sapodilla tree to the American palate.