Aromatic resin/oil from the Pistacia lentiscus tree grown on Chios, used as a chewing-gum flavour/base ingredient.
Chios Mastic (Gum/Oil) has no known health concerns in the amounts typically used in food.
Score impact: No penalty on the FoodsScan score (FoodsScan scores run 0–100, where 100 is best.)
Found in 14 of 12,846 analysed products in the FoodsScan database.
Chios Mastic (Gum/Oil) is also known as mastic, mastiha, mastic gum, chios mastiha, chios mastic oil — these all refer to the same ingredient.
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