Artificial Saliva and Ethnobotany

Look, sometimes you need quite a large volume of artificial saliva for very normal reasons. We&rsquo;ve all been there. In my case, it&rsquo;s because I was researching pre-contact fermentation practices in the Americas, and wanted an alternative to manually chewing starchy base ingredients (corn in the case of chicha, or mesquite beans in the specific case I was researching &ndash; more on that…