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CHICLE
What is Chicle?
Chicle is the natural gum collected from the Sapodilla tree.
Foresters tap the latex from the sapodilla tree’s bark, drip the sap into a sack, and later reduce the liquid over a fire in the camp until it becomes gum. Chicle is then mixed with sugar and flavoring and made into a gum.
Chicle from the Maya Biosphere Reserve
The Sapodilla tree is the most abundant tree in the MBR. Chicle is collected from the bark of the trees during the rainy season when the latex flows better. The dripping latex is cut in zigzag from by the chicle collectors from the base of the trees up to its first branches.
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NUTRITIONAL FACTS
Nutritional Facts
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Environmental Benefits
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SOCIAL BENEFITS & GENDER EQUITY
Social Benefits & Gender Equity
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Carolina Alvarado
Community Leader, Uaxactun
"I wanted to go see the world"
Social Practices
Approximately 100,000 jobs are created annually, with wages above the country’s average from ramón harvesting, processing, and selling
Social Benefits of Ramon
For years, the stigma on ramón was that it was a poor person’s food, used only in times of famine and not traditionally meant to be in the Guatemalan staple.
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