Food

Friday, 22 May 2026

Chocolate is one of the most popular foods and flavors in the world. It was already known 4 thousand years ago. The ancient inhabitants of today's Mex ...

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Tomato juice

Before the invention of the juice, it was reportedly already popular in South America.

The Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas used tomato juice as a base to prepare medicinal drinks.

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Chocolate

Chocolate is a high-calorie product.

100 g of 99% dark chocolate may contain 530 kcal, but as a product with a low glycemic index (20), i ...

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Wagyū Beef

Although it is very difficult to find purebred Wagyū cattle outside of Japan, it is even more difficult to find genuine beef in the trade.

Dishonest sellers use many tricks to disguise the dubious origin of the meat they sell and make a fo ...

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Coffee

One of the most expensive coffees in the world is Kopi Luwak.

In 2013, a kilogram of this coffee cost between $200 and $400. This is because the annual world harv ...

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Mozzarella

Mozzarella is a rennet cheese from southern Italy.

Rennet cheeses are a type of cheese that is obtained by denaturing milk with rennet - a digestive en ...

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Maple syrup

In the 17th and 18th centuries, apart from maple syrup, sugar was also produced from maple juice.

In the 19th century, during the Civil War, maple sugar was replaced by cane sugar, which began to do ...

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Maple syrup

Research by Dr. Keiko Abe of the University of Tokyo has shown that maple syrup significantly improves liver function.

It has also been shown that ABA abscisic acid contained in maple syrup stimulates the release of ins ...

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Eggs

World production of chicken eggs reached 86.7 million tons in 2020.

The world’s largest producer of chicken eggs is China, which supplies about 35 percent of the global ...

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Coffee

There are two methods of extracting coffee beans from the fruit.

One is the wet method, in which the coffee fruit goes into a water-mill-like machine. There they are ...

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Sushi

Although seaweed (Jap. nori) is the most popular sushi wrapper, it has equivalents for those not fond of its taste.

It has a distinguished taste, so it is commonly replaced with egg, rice paper, or sliced cucumber.

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16 facts about Mozzarella

The most recognizable Italian cheese in the world

Mozzarella is the most recognizable and third most often bought Italian cheese, after Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano. It is always associated wi ...

17 facts about Kimchi

Traditional Korean dish

Kimchi is a staple Korean delicacy, served as a side dish with almost every meal. It consists of salted and fermented vegetables, including various ca ...

10 facts about Hot dog

One of the most popular fast foods

Hot dogs are typical representatives of fast food. They are prepared swiftly and consumed even faster. Even though the fashion for eating hot dogs spr ...