Native Americans chewed on hard sap nuggets from the spruce tree, and this would become the first commercial chewing gum in the United States. If you're not a fan of the popular synthetic gums on ...

A correspondent of the Lewiston Journal, III a letter from Byron, Me., says: "The spruce gum business of this region is quite large. I am told that a merchant of Weld purchased in a single year $ ...

While many reach for gum to freshen breath or satisfy a sweet ... Native Americans chewed spruce tree resin, while ancient Mayans extracted chicle from sapodilla trees for their chewing needs.

In Mexico, for instance, Mayans and later Aztecs chewed chicle, a substance derived from the milky latex of the tropical sapodilla tree ... in Central Asia, or spruce gum among Indigenous ...