Food

Monday, 23 March 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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Sushi

Sushi is traditionally eaten with hands.

Most people in Japan do not use chopsticks to eat sushi, but outside Japan eating sushi with hands is not that common.

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Maple syrup

Maple syrup, as a completely natural product, is used as a sweetener but also provides many valuable ingredients for the human body.

It is a source of the following minerals: calcium, potassium, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, iron ...

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Honey

The most numerous group of compounds in honey are carbohydrates, mainly glucose and fructose.

Sucrose, maltose, and melezitose (in honeydew honey) may be present in smaller amounts. The taste of ...

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Maple syrup

The collected juice was concentrated by evaporating the water using one of the two methods.

One method was to put very hot stones in the fire in a juice pot. The second one was based on the us ...

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Chocolate

The cocoa mass is mixed with cocoa butter in such proportions that the resulting product contains about 30% fat.

This stage also requires adding sugar. All this mass goes to the heated conchs, where it is intensiv ...

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Halva

Sunflower halva is popular in the former Soviet Union, Bulgaria, and Romania.

It’s made with roasted and ground sunflower seeds, instead of tahini. In the 1990s, Ukrainians produced around 4000/5000 tons of sunflower halva annually.

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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 ...

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Chocolate

Chocolate spread all over the world is a steadily growing global business worth $50 billion a year.

Europe accounts for 45% of global chocolate revenues. “Big Chocolate”, a term associated with multi- ...

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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.

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Parmesan

Parmigiano Reggiano is made from unpasteurized cow's milk.

The milk from the morning milking is mixed with the naturally skimmed milk from the evening milking ...

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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 ...