- Chicle - Wikipedia
Chicle ( ˈ tʃ ɪ k əl ) is a natural gum traditionally used in making chewing gum and other products [1] It is collected from several species of Mesoamerican trees in the genus Manilkara, including M zapota, M chicle, M staminodella, and M bidentata [2] [3]
- Chicle - History of Chicle-based Gum - Chewing Gum Facts
The age of mass-produced chicle gum faded in the 1960s when chewing gum manufacturers started switching from natural rubbers to more affordable and easier-to-make butadiene-based synthetic rubbers
- Chicle - from the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley - Loco Gringo
When Thomas Adams invented the first chicle-based chewing gum in 1859, it was sold in the form of small gray hand-rolled balls with no added flavor They later created mold-based gum with added sugar and flavoring, and their sales increased dramatically
- 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
- The History of Chewing Gum, From Chicle to Chiclets - Serious Eats
The practice of chewing gum dates back thousands of years, its enduring popularity evident in the dried chicle (a natural gum derived from trees) found among Mayan ruins in southern Mexico and the thousands of grayscale ovals pressed into city sidewalks around the world
- Chicle: The History of Chewing Gum | Brian Altonen, MPH, MS
Today it is been accepted by most historians that by 1866 Secretary Adams’s brother, Thomas Adams, Jr (b April 11, 1846; d Aug 4, 1926), and his father, Thomas, Sr , were the first entrepreneurs to successfully produce and market a chicle-based chewing gum
- A Brief History of Chewing Gum - Smithsonian Magazine
As Mathews explains, chewing gum has been around on this continent for hundreds of years in the form of chicle, a resin extracted from the sapodilla tree in southern Mexico and Central America
- Chew on this: The 10,000-year history of gum | Popular Science
Chicle ultimately led to the creation and commodification of the modern chewing gum we know today, as described in Mathews’ 2009 book, Chicle: The Chewing Gum of the Americas, From the
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