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Sunday, 19 July 2026
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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Mozzarella
Mozzarella received the Traditional Specialties Guaranteed (GTS) certificate from the European Union in 1998.
This system requires mozzarella sold in the EU to be produced according to a traditional recipe. The certification does not specify the source of the milk, but suggests it to be whole milk.
Honey
Mead has been made and consumed since the Middle Ages in Lithuania and Poland.
It is a traditional alcoholic beverage created by fermenting the wort of bee honey, usually lime hon ...
Chocolate
Chocolate is a confectionery containing cocoa (cocoa mass, cocoa butter, cocoa powder), sugar, and other additives (like milk, which is added to milk chocolate).
Directive 2000/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23rd June defines chocolate as ...
Cheddar
It is the most popular cheese in the UK.
In the US, it ranks second just behind mozzarella.
Churro
Body-conscious people should approach the eating of churros with due caution.
It should be remembered that this dessert is based on butter and is additionally deep-fried.Frequent ...
Mozzarella
Mozzarella made with buffalo milk is made in many countries, including Switzerland, the United States, Australia, Colombia, Thailand, Egypt, India, and Turkey.
All producers use local buffalo milk. According to some, Italy and Bulgaria have the best milk buffalos. Mozzarella Çaycuma and mozzarella Kandıra are Turkish buffalo milk cheeses.
French fries
French fries are most often prepared in vegetable oil, although they were originally fried in beef tallow.
As recently as the 1990s, fries at McDonald’s were fried in a mixture of 93 percent beef tallow and 7 percent cottonseed oil.
Honey
Upon returning to the hive, the bee passes the harvest to the hive worker and then flies off to continue working.
This mouth-to-mouth exchange of nectar is called trophallaxis. The final processing of nectar into h ...
Tomato juice
In Europe, the largest producers of tomato juice are Italy and Spain.
Kimchi
The traditional way of preparing winter kimchi (kimjang) was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2013.