xicle = chicleEl gum comes from the Aztec, Olmec and Mayan peoples of the southeast of Mexico, but they did not make or a peel, simply chewed. He extracted tree sapodilla or Zapotillo and called it tzicli. You were in the form of small soft pieces that they got them making a cut in the trunk of the tree, he would pick up the liquid and that the cooked to give consistency.