Besides being perhaps one of the best-tasting tropical fruits, sapodilla has a unique history. Much like the native rubber trees of South America, sapodilla trees were once exploited for the white, ...

Sap from the Sapodilla tree is once again in demand and boiled into chicle to make the sticky gum base. Leading the pack is best-seller Glee Gum with fair-trade chicle, sugar and non-GMO ingredients.

BBC Science Focus writes that historically, gum was made from the chewy sap of the Sapodilla tree. However nowadays, they say ...

For most people, swallowing gum shouldn’t have any side effects unless you have swallowed a lot of it. Learn more about what gum is and what it does to your body.

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.

Somewhere between 9,500 and 9,900 years ago, three Scandinavian teenagers were hanging out, chewing gum after a meal. Specifically, they were chewing pitch or tar made from the bark of birch trees.

For most people, swallowing gum shouldn’t have any side effects unless you have swallowed a lot of it. Learn more about what gum is and what it does to your body.