https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicle
Chicle (/ˈtʃɪkəl/) is a natural gum traditionally used in making chewing gum and other products. It is collected from several species of Mesoamerican trees in the genus Manilkara, including M. zapota, M. chicle, M. staminodella, and M. bidentata.
In Russia we used to drink the blood of birches. It’s pretty good actually.
I don’t know about other countries but in Finland people sometimes extract and drink birch sap. We call it mahla.
In Russia as well. And it’s called simply “birch juice”
We call it trussy juice.
Sugar cane, Arenga pinnata
Just here to point out that sugar is not a tree, it’s a grass
Other hardwoods can be tapped and their sap made into syrup, it’s just that maple is the tastiest, with the Sugar Maple being what we think of when it comes to making syrup. Birch and Walnut are probably the most common alternatives.
Just be careful with birch sap. You might find that you’re allergic to it and it’s pollen. The hives from the pollen is no joke.
Funny thing, in my family we’re all allergic to birch pollen. So before the pollen season we often tap some birch sap and drink to bolster our immune system in advance. Dunno if there’s any science behind it, but in my experience it’s done wonders.
I’ve heard that eating local honey similarly lowers your allergy response to local pollen, and I believed that, so I’ll believe this too.
It’s a myth. For a start most people’s hayfever isn’t anything to do with flower pollen, it’s grass and tree pollen and fungal spores. Pollen and spores can be carried by air currents and travel long distances. The flowers your local honey comes from are unlikely to be causing your hayfever. You should buy local honey over commercial honey though because it supports small producers.
So you just need to find grass, tree, and fungal honey then to make it work. Easy peasy.
Someone, somewhere, is definitely making fungal honey. But I think it might be an STD.
