Chios Mastiha is a unique product with many beneficial qualities and wide- ranging uses since antiquity. Nowadays, because of its amazing taste and smell, is used in pharmaceuticals, perfumes, cosmetics, beverages, bakery goods, sweets as well as in cooking. Chios Mastiha is the natural resin of pistacia lentiscus var. Chia, a tree which grows only on the Aegean island of Chios, Greece.
The natural Chios mastiha small tears can be powdered and therefore used in cooking and pastry.
