Betel nuts are eaten after having been processed commercially. Unripe or ripe nuts are shelled, boiled and sun-dried, then crushed with lime and catechu, a red, astringent extract made from boiled ...

and began buying betel nut sheaths from local farmers at VND 1,000 (USD 0.04) per sheath. “At first, people didn’t believe I would pay for something they considered waste. Now, we have suppliers who ...

Attention, chewers of betel nut with lime. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands has a new law regulating afok or bweesch — lime — that is mostly used in the Pacific islands for ...

Traditionally, they are combined with additives like kattha (catechu), chuna (slaked lime) and supari (areca nut), which unfortunately make it unhealthy when consumed regularly. However ...