{"title":"Mastic — Chios PDO","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is only one place on earth where Pistacia lentiscus trees weep their distinctive crystalline resin: the southern villages of Chios, a Greek island in the Aegean. The mastic (mastiha) produced here has been harvested by the same families for centuries, protected by a PDO designation that acknowledges its total uniqueness, and valued across the Mediterranean and Middle East for its remarkable properties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMastic has a flavour unlike anything else — piney, faintly sweet, with a subtle eucalyptus note and a pleasant resinous warmth. In Greek and Cypriot cooking it appears in bread (the distinctive Chios mastiha loaf), in sweets and ice cream, in liqueurs, in chewing gum, and as a flavouring for everything from lamb to cheese. It is one of the world's genuinely irreplaceable ingredients.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur Mastic collection offers food-grade mastic tears (the whole resin pieces, exactly as harvested) and mastic powder for convenient use in baking and cooking. We also offer mastic-infused products that bring this extraordinary flavour to your pantry in accessible forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMastic has been used medicinally in the Eastern Mediterranean since antiquity — modern research has confirmed genuine antimicrobial and digestive properties. But for us, its value is simply as one of the most distinctive and irreplaceable flavours in world cuisine.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1021\/0643\/1830\/collections\/mastic-products.jpg?v=1776595579","url":"https:\/\/checkout.backtonatureorganicfoods.co.uk\/collections\/mastic-products.oembed","provider":"Back to Nature Co","version":"1.0","type":"link"}