In Turkey, mastic is a popular coffee flavor. Mastic chewing gum is popular across the Arab world. The Greek word "mastic” comes from the ancient Greek word mastichon, to chew.

Mastic has been a part of the island's cultural heritage since 2014, with the substance often referred to as the "tears of Chios." The name is associated with the harvesting process.

BACKGROUND Chios mastic gum is a resin that has become popular in some food supplements and chewing gums said to help with various stomach ailments. The gum comes from the mastic shrub, which is a ...

Mastic gum is a resin that comes from the mastic tree, which is an evergreen shrub that grows on the Greek island of Chios. Mastic gum may have health benefits, but research into its safety is ...

Photograph by Georgios Makkas, Alamy Stock Photo Pyrgi is one of 24 mastic-producing villages, or mastichochoria, on the Greek island of Chios.

We come to the shop of the Chios Gum Mastic Growers Association, the co-operative that represents the mastic growing villages in the south of the island, and which, in 1997, won EU “protected ...

Mastic gum is a resin from a small evergreen tree or shrub (Pistacia lentiscus) found in the Mediterranean, according to 2022 research published in Nutrients. It’s been used as a therapy on the Greek ...

Chios Mastic, a tree resin used in the production of items as diverse as liquor to beauty products and a gum that can alleviate peptic ulcers, has a protected designation of origin status within ...

The island, while more remote, is known for its exports of mastic gum earning it the famous nickname of ‘the Mastic Island’. The uniqueness of Chios is also brought by a rare mastic tree ...

It lies much closer to Turkey than to the Greek mainland. And there’s no separating its history from that of mastic. A 17th-century rendering of the island of Chios. Bridgeman Images ...