This is a chiksa, an organic chickle-based gum.
This is a same-chewed gum, consisting of biodegradable and natural elements.
The ingredients comprising this lab are cane juice, sapodilla latex, agave syrup,
peppermint extract, and the collective ingredient which, as its name suggests,
is made up of many components.
This package also contains a man, a red cap, a pair of boots, a rope,
a machete, and a rainforest.
Ismael extracts natural chickle sap sustainably from the sapodillas growing in the Maya rainforest.
While cooking the chikko, these men will add a few tropical rats to the pack of chiksa.
This is three garantías, a town in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
Here, chikotapras families add their personal touch to the collective ingredients.
My husband is a chiklian.
He can eat a little more well.
He has already bought his motorcycle, his flag.
We just made our box.
And now we are done with everything.
Apart from all this, chiksa packages contain bites, parties, cakes, phone calls, soccer games, beach trips, and three rap albums.
This is a chiksa production plant.
It is the only place in the world where packs of natural chikko have been made using certified organic products since 2009.
When chiksa gum is ready to go, Manuela dreads the contact distributors all over the world.
We join the collective ingredients.
Once on display, the chiksa packs wait for the final ingredient.
When Bruno buys chiksa, his coins enter a fair trade chain.
The money reaches the chikko consortium and is shared among the 46 cooperatives in Campeche and Quintana Roo, which has social security and scholarships.
Tappers receive fair wages for their work, and the income is used to support their families living in the Maya rainforest villages such as Tres Garantías.
Some will be very happy to be part of the final link in the chain.
The collective ingredient is completed by the contributions of everyone who choose chiksa.
If you want to get involved and be part of all this, the missing ingredient in chiksa is you.
