Arabic Gum

Arabic Gum, Grade - 3 (sokoto)
Origin- Mali
An important ingredient in soft drink syrup and "hard" gummy candies such as gumdrops, marshmallows and M&M's chocolate candies.
For artists, it is the traditional binder in water colour paint, in photography for gum printing, and it is used as a binder in pyrotechnic compositions. Pharmaceutical drugs and cosmetics also use the gum as a binder, emulsifying agent, and a suspending or viscosity increasing agent.
makers have used gum arabic as a fining agent.
It is an important ingredient in shoe polish, and can be used in making homemade incense cones. It is also used as a lickable adhesive, for example on postage stamps, envelopes, and papers. Lithographic printers employ it to keep the non-image areas of the plate receptive to water.
This treatment also helps to stop oxidation of aluminium printing plates in the interval between processing of the plate and its use on a printing press.