Chewing gum may be a $19 billion industry, but it's not a universally accepted practice. As Jennifer Mathews tells Liane Hansen, chewing gum is a crime in Singapore, and, in 15th-century Meso-America, ...

While a few major manufacturers in the United States were making millions on chewing gum, they were also having a major impact on the chicle extraction industry of Latin America. The majority of ...

From the Publisher: Although Juicy Fruit® gum was introduced to North Americans in 1893, Native Americans in Mesoamerica were chewing gum thousands of years earlier. And although in the last decade ...

Gum is one of those things we tend to take for granted. Whether we chew it or not, most of us deal with it on a daily basis. It's the stuff kids smack and pop in public, or the secret weapon against ...

GUM, PERHAPS the world's oldest confection, began as an edible treat from trees. Although far less sweet than today's gums, a chewy tree sap called mastiche was a favorite of the ancient Greeks. Its ...

"How is gum made?" a participant in the Libertyville Parks Teen Travelers bike camp asked. The story of gum is not all sweet and snappy. Chewing gum goes way back - about 2,000 years. People through ...

Alfredo Rodriguez Arzate cooks the milky latex collected from the sapodilla tree to make the base for an organic chewing gum. "Chicleros" have been extracting the sapodilla tree's latex, the original ...

Porfirio Baños takes the measure of the chicozapote tree that he is about to tap for its resin. He winds a rope around himself and the tall, straight trunk that stretches towards a glimpse of sky ...

Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has produced a series of objects using chicle, a natural latex from the Yucatán Peninsula similar to chewing gum. The objects were created for Design for the Living ...