The chewing of betel nut, the seed of the Areca palm, is common across Asia and the Pacific. In Papua New Guinea, where it is known locally as "buai", it is consumed with a mustard stick dipped in ...

Opinion - Betel nut chewing was a social activity that played an important part in the daily lives of the early Micronesians, writes Raquel Bagnol.

Nolan Saumure was visiting the Philippines when he sampled 'moma', also known as 'paan' - something he may come to regret.

Despite encouraging trends in control of tobacco smoking, progress in reducing use of smokeless tobacco and areca nut ...

or betel nut, which is the fruit of the areca palm. In a video, Nolan is seen approaching a small Filipino store and ...

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are addicted to a tropical palm-tree seed that provides a caffeine-like buzz—yet many users don’t know it puts them at grave risk for cancer. Oral cancers ...

Betel nut is not very well known in the western world. But this addictive nut, which grows on the areca palm, is regarded as ...

astringent extract made from boiled pieces of areca palm wood. The nuts can be bought and eaten in this form. Alternatively, they are sold in ‘paan’ shops wrapped in betel (‘paan’) leaves ...