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Thursday, 13 November 2025
16 facts about Chocolate
16 facts about Chocolate
A delicacy not only for a sweet tooth
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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Coffee
In Salzburg, the first café was opened in 1703 and the café still exists today.
It is called Café Tomaselli and is the oldest café still in existence in Western Europe.It was frequ ...
Halva
The composition of a traditional halva depends on the region and the availability of local ingredients.
The original halva consisted of simple ingredients: honey, which was not only a source of sugar but ...
Sushi
It was a Japanese chef, Hanaya Yohei, who popularized hand-pressed vinegared rice rolls.
He served his invention at his shop in Ryōgoku around 1824.
Halva
Followers of a raw food diet crave raw halva, made with raw ingredients–tahini, almonds, agave nectar, and salt, mixed and frozen until firm.
Honey
Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance produced by honey bees and some other Hymenoptera (such as wasps).
Bees produce honey from the sugary secretions of plants (flower nectar) or the secretions of other insects (honeydew) by returning food, enzymatic activity, and evaporating water.
Kombucha
Kombucha is attributed with many medicinal values.
The drink has a positive effect on the intestinal bacterial flora.
Honey
When a bee collects sugar-rich nectar, it sucks it out using a trumpet (a tube inside which is a mobile, flexible tongue) and places it in a storage sack (crop), which is separated from the honey stomach by a foregut, known as a valve.
The crop of a typical honey bee contains about 40 mg of nectar, or about 50 percent of the bee’s une ...
Churro
In Spain, churros are most often eaten at two times of the day.
They can form the basis of a sweet breakfast, but an equally popular time to indulge in this treat i ...
Halva
Peanut halva is popular in Argentina.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Greek immigrants in Argentina used peanut butter to create a semi-soft nougat variation called mantecol.
Churro
Traditional churros are typically served with chocolate.
Churros probably made their way to Latin America with the conquistadors in the 16th century. In turn ...