Sentences with word «chicle»

The tree once used as a source of chicle for chewing gum.

Glee Gum uses chicle because it helps to conserve the rainforest, giving trees more value standing than chopped down for lumber.

Once all chewing gum was made with chicle, but today most gum is made entirely from synthetic stuff.

The Province of Quintana Roo was then opened up and vast untapped forest areas, which had previously been under the control of the Maya, were made available for chicle production.

Plus, Glee Gum has the distinction of using natural chicle in its gum base.

The de-barked trunks of chicle trees (zapote - a native hardwood) have been used to hold up the beams which are carved from the same wood.

Like the rest of the Glee Gum line, Sugar - Free Glee is made with sustainably harvested rainforest chicle.

Jody picked up three packs of Glee Gum at Vitamin Cottage and Ava has been happily chewing on chicle ever since.

Noh - Bec is not ancient; it was founded in the 1930s by chicleros — people who made their living mainly by harvesting natural chewing gum from chicle found in trees that abound in the Yucatán.

These centered around various important annual occurrences such as the leavetaking of the chicleros (when the celebrations were sponsored by chicle contractors), the feast of San Pedro on the 29th June, the feast of El de Esquipulas on the 15th January or the Day of the Cross on the 3rd May.

In the latter part of the 19th century chicle export provided considerable income for the entire country of Belize.

Using chicle helps sustain the rainforest!

Besides chicle, the only ingredients are calcium carbonate, candelilla wax and dehydrated citrus peels.

During the height of industrialization, New York was home to National Biscuit Company, Hebrew National and American Chicle.

This war raged on killing generations of people on both sides until 1912 when the Wrigley Chewing Gum Company of Chicago offered to buy chicle - a natural gum that came from the millions of sapadilla trees in the Mexican jungles.

San Pedro was in an ideal position to benefit from the newly opened chicle grounds.

In San Pedro, since some of the contractors also owned coconut plantations, chicleros with unpaid chicle debts were sometimes put to work in the cocals to settle them.

The system worked roughly as follows: a company or wealthy individual who held a concession to bleed chicle in certain areas provided a contractor with funds to recruit gangs of chicleros.

The delights of La Banda's music in the 1920s no doubt provided San Pedranos with a relieving counterpoint to the hardship and suffering of a life of cocal and chicle servitude.

Chicle became an important source of revenue for San Pedranos in the late 1890s.

Lundell was guided to Calakmul by chicleros (chicle collectors), descendants of the ancient Maya, who for the last century have prowled confidently through jungles where gringos would get lost.

Cotey Cerasale (lead designer), Bradley Rienstra (lead programmer) and John Lebron (level design) are the men at the wheel of this little indie outfit and are hoping to show of their new game El Chicle at PAX East this weekend to as many of you as possible.

It was then boiled to make blocks of chicle.

Made with chicle, a tree sap harvested sustainably to help conserve the rainforest.

In the past it thrived on chicle, and maize grown by peasant farmers.

The new base is made from chicle, calcium carbonate, candelilla wax, and citrus peels.

It was once a terminal for chicle and the timber trade, however, agriculture is now the major economic base.

George James Parham was an expatriate Englishman, a merchant and chicle contractor, who married Juanita Blake, one of the two daughters Antonia Andrade and James Hume Blake had after their marriage, the other one being Manuela.

This is a much better and healthier alternative to conventional gum, as it copies the ancient practice of using chicle, or tree sap, to get the desirable chewiness.

«Gaitas» it appears, was captured by the Maya while working chicle in the Quintana Roo area.

Ingredients: organic raw cane sugar, natural chicle base (chicle, candelilla wax, citrus acid), natural flavour, organic vegetable glycerin, organic rice flour

Packaged in recyclable material (no blister packs) and made with chicle, a tree sap harvested sustainably from the rainforest of Central America.

Fun fact: Most modern gum is made with a synthetic gum base; Glee Gum uses chicle, a tree sap harvested sustainably from the rainforest of Central America.

Most modern gum is made with a synthetic gum base; Glee Gum uses chicle, a tree sap harvested sustainably from the rainforest of Central America.

The only problem with chicle is that it gets stuck in your teeth much more easily than slippery old petroleum.

Traditionally, it was made of chicle, a natural latex product, although for reasons of economy and quality many modern chewing gums use petroleum - based polymers instead of chicle.

Today these people, as well as the Mopanero Maya who live in Succotz near Benque Viejo, were the main force behind the chicle (chewing gum base) industry.

border raids and ribald living by hardy chicleros (chicle - bleeders).

The economy of Belize was traditionally based on forestry, mainly the export of logwood, mahogany and chicle.

Historically the economy of Belize was based upon the export of logwood, mahogany, and chicle.

The chicle boom continued up until the Great Depression of the 1930s when it collapsed as a result of the general economic malaise and the development of synthetic substitutes for chewing gum base.

Chicle is derived from the sap of the sapodilla tree (Achras zapota) which is bled and heated to form the base of chewing gum.

Although Ambergris Caye contained a significant quantity of sapodilla trees, the chicle industry did not become established until the turn of the century.