Answer:
What is the only chain we can eat?
A toasty and crunchy cereal would be pointless without this spice.
What is eaten by man, served among many, grown by many, and white as snow?
What can break when we touch it
Gold in a leather bag, swinging on a tree, money after honey in its time. Ills of a scurvy crew cured by the sea, reason in its season but no rhyme.
It produces a flower but it is not its fruitΝΎ it produces branches which are its fruit.