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When ripe, the ovoid-shaped fruits detach from the stem and eject the seeds explosively in a high-pressure jet of mucilage.

Key examples are mustard and garlic, which contain "mucilage" — a mix of carbohydrates — that can act as emulsifiers.

Inside were the cocoa beans: nodules wrapped in a sweet, slimy white pulp known as mucilage.

Turkey’s president called the slime a “mucilage calamity,” and workers were dispatched to vacuum it up using hoses.

In Canakkale, a popular tourist town on the Dardanelles where the Marmara feeds into the Aegean, vacationers peered into the harbor at the mucilage that had turned the sea into the consistency of clam chowder.