- Chicle - Wikipedia
The word is used in the Americas and Spain to refer to chewing gum, chicle being a common term for it in Spanish and chiclete being the Portuguese term (both in Brazil and in parts of Portugal; other areas also use the term chicla)
- What Is Chicle? The Natural History of Chewing Gum
Chicle is a natural latex, specifically a gum, collected from several species of Mesoamerican trees in the genus Manilkara The most well-known source is the sapodilla tree (Manilkara zapota), native to the tropical forests of Central America and the Yucatán Peninsula
- Chicle | Definition, Description, History | Britannica
Chicle, gum that consists of the coagulated milky latex of the sapodilla tree (Manilkara zapota), a tropical American fruit tree principally from Yucatán and regions of Central America Chicle is obtained as pinkish to reddish brown pieces and is said to contain both rubber and gutta-percha
- What Is Chiqle? The Natural History of Chewing Gum
Chicle is a natural latex, a milky white fluid extracted from the sapodilla tree (Manilkara zapota), native to Central America, particularly the Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, and Guatemala
- Chicle - History of Chicle-based Gum
Chicle is the ingredient in the production of chewing gum It is a natural product of trees with gum characteristics traditionally used in making chewing gums Our prehistoric Neolithic ancestors used various resins or birch bar tars to chew for either pleasure or dental health
- Chicle - from the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley - Loco Gringo
Chicle is a history in four acts, all of them focused on the sticky white substance that seeps from the sapodilla tree when its bark is cut First, Jennifer Mathews recounts the story of chicle and its earliest — known adherents, the Maya and Aztecs
- Chicle: The Chewing Gum of the Americas, From the Ancient Maya to . . .
In particular, it focuses on chicle (the resin used in chewing gum), from its earliest uses among pre-contact peoples to the boom and bust extraction industry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and its small-scale use today
- CHICLE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of CHICLE is a gum from the latex of the sapodilla used as the chief ingredient of chewing gum
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