The acacia tree is among one of the most promising resources of Africa. It produces the gum of the same name:Acacia Gum,that we regularly find in products of our daily life.It is time to put the ...

For millennia, the gum of the acacia tree has been prized for its unusual culinary and medical uses. Now, the trees are part of a continent-wide effort to hold back the Sahara Desert. In the ...

Sap is extracted from acacia trees by cutting incisions in their bark that allow the liquid to seep out. After that, the sap turns into gum. Its distinct qualities and water solubility make it ...

Gum Arabic, also referred to as meska, acacia gum, and chaar gund/goond, is a naturally occurring emulsifier made from the hardened sap of two different species of acacia trees, Senegalia senegal ...

The Dean of the Gum Arabic Research and Desertification Studies Institute at the University of Kordofan, Dr. Hamdoun Ali Abdel-Rahman, told SUNA that the institute is planning to plant 20,000 acacia ...