APEACHGIRL Premium Snow Swallow Gum (16oz/1LB) - Natural Plant-Based Dessert Ingredient, Resealable Bag | Vegan Cooking & Asian Dessert Essentials | Wild-Harvested from Myanmar

Looks like it should, no strong odors. When made into tea it does not fully dissolve but becomes soft and does infuse the water. Benefits remain to be seen. Just started trying this stuff.

This is tragacanth gum, the dried sap collected by hand from a species of shrub . This gum invariably has pieces of the plant's bark which is often preferred to be removed after hydration. I was struck by how little bark had to be removed. This is one of the cleanest gums I've encountered.Humanity has written about it since 3 BC. It's an excellent thickener (e.g. for salad dressings and sauces) and emulsifier (has been used in ice cream). When mixed with water, it swells to many times it original size. For one serving, I suggest weighing out no more than 20 g of this. Place it in a container at least 1 pint / 560 ml with water for 10 hours or overnight. You'll find it has absorbed the water and become much bigger.Get another container to put it in. Grab a small amount and examine it for bark and remove the bark before transferring it. The gum at this point is stringy and in chunks. You want the stringy bits which has an interesting texture when eaten. It's generally placed in a liquid soup of some sort. As a dessert this can include milk, coconut milk, juice, or water.The gum has a mostly neutral but slightly naturally sour flavor so you generally want to balance the flavor with a sweetener. Traditionally you'd use fruits and rock sugar but you can use whatever you like. When using coconut milk I like using honey. It may be hard to get some of the traditional fruits but goji berries are popular in health food circles. But use whatever fruits you like.Pictured is the hydrated and cleaned tragacanth gum.It's $2.12/oz at the time of this review, which is pretty competitive with comparable products. Like I said, it's exceptionally clean so the time reduction in cleaning it and no use of sulfur in processing is worth it to me. At 20 g per serving it'll last a while.

I thought this looked interesting and wanted to try it since I like boba tea. I didn't have the ingredients to make traditional desserts with this, but it's a nice addition to refreshing drinks. It's nice and chewy, but more like small chunks with some long strands when it expands, and does not require cooking like tapioca pearls. I soaked some in fruit juices, like cranberry and pomegranate and then added lemon/lime soda and ginger ale, it was fantastic. I tried some in plain water to taste and it's basically flavorless, I suppose you could sweeten it as well. It expands quite a bit, I dropped about 5 chunks in a small juice glass and overnight it absorbed all the liquid and filled the glass, cool stuff. :) I'm not familiar with the health benefits but I guess it can be good for you. Some recipes call for dry roasting it but I haven't tried that, but I do plan to try it as a thickener in homemade salad dressings to avoid or reduce using oil as an emulsifier, and I also believe it would be good in soups. Great stuff, thanks.

Prior to trying tragacanth gum, I had limited knowledge of its uses. However, I found that it is an excellent ingredient for healthy desserts. This natural gum is obtained from the dried sap of various trees, typically peach trees, and has been used for cooking soups, desserts, and medicinal purposes. Although I was disappointed to find no recipes on the product or Amazon's product page, a quick YouTube search yielded several useful options. Following one of the recipes, I made a delicious fruit dessert by soaking a small amount of tragacanth gum in water overnight and then adding it to a mixture of blueberries, strawberries, and yogurt. While the product itself does not have any taste or color, it provided an interesting and enjoyable texture to my dessert. Initially, the product had a vinegar-like smell while in the bag, but this disappeared after soaking it overnight. I assume this may be due to some sort of preservative in the bag. Overall, I was pleased with my new healthy dessert made with this brand new ingredient, and I learned something interesting and new.

I like nature made products. I had never used Tragacanth Gum, so I decided to check it out. I was disappointed first of all, because the package has no instructions on how to prepare it or its health benefits. I did some research, and this is what I found on WebMD, “Tragacanth is a shrub that grows in areas of the Middle East. The sap-like material (resin) of the bark is used to make medicine. Tragacanth contains chemicals that stimulate the bowel. People use tragacanth for diarrhea, constipation, and other conditions, but there is no good scientific evidence to support these uses.” Some other websites talked about benefits, but none of them were reliable sources in my opinion. For this reason, I would not recommend Tragacanth Gum.

I was excited to try this product, but there is no cooking instruction from the seller. I still can't figure out the best way to use it. I put it in the smoothie, but the taste was not great.Although not tasty, I could eat it for health purposes. But, the seller has not included the health benefits either in the product description.The package should include the recipe and health benefits for helping those who have never used it before.P.S. the packet was all faded and looked old. (See pic)

Description made it sound delicious and like a desert treat but it’s no where near that. Nasty taste. No sweetening at all in some tea I made. Too hard to eat.