Mahlepi (Mahleb in Arabic) is an unusual Greek spice with a distinctive, fruity taste. The finely ground mahlepi powder is made from the inner kernels of fruit pits of a native Persian cherry tree.

Mastiha (pronounced ma-stee-ha) is a Greek liqueur that contains mastic, a resin collected from the gum of the mastic tree (the earliest known form of chewing gum) and sweetened with sugar. In Greek, the word “μαστίχα” literally means “to chew”