"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 ...

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 ...

The milky latex bled from the Mexican rain forest tree as Alfredo Rodriguez Arzate swung his machete, climbing the trunk with a rope around his waist and spurs on his boots. Built like a featherweight ...