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Wednesday, 18 March 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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Kombucha
From China, kombucha made its way to Japan (between 250 and 538).
A Korean doctor who reached Japan is believed to have cured the digestive problems of the emperor at the time with tea fermented with a special mushroom.
Churro
Selling churros is an annual lucrative business for Disneyland.
Disneyland’s theme parks offer special 12-inch churros coated with cinnamon sugar, the popularity of which translates into sales of nearly 3 million per year.
Pizza
The traditional pizza consists of cheese and tomatoes.
Toppings are served on leavened wheat-based dough, baked in a wood-fired oven.
French fries
The basic ingredients in fries are, of course, potatoes.
Ordinary potatoes can be replaced by yams. Some people let their imagination run wild even more and ...
Wagyū Beef
The highest yield and meat quality grade for Wagyu beef is A5, where A is the yield grade and 5 is the meat quality grade.
The basic criteria for evaluating meat are its marbling, fat content, meat color (it can't be too li ...
Cheddar
One of the largest cheddar cheeses was produced in Wisconsin in 1964.
Weighing 15,690 kg (34,591 lb), the cheese puck was made for the New York World's Fair. For its production was used daily portion of milk from 16,000 cows.
Maple syrup
The Native Americans claim that this skill of obtaining maple syrup was accidentally passed on to them by the gods.
Legend has it that the Iroquois’ Chief Woksis threw his tomahawk into a maple tree on a winter day. ...
Kimchi
It is a source of valuable probiotics.
Its most valuable component is considered beneficial Lactobacillus bacteria, belonging to the group ...
Eggs
In ancient Rome, meals often began with egg dishes.
The Romans knew many ways to preserve eggs. In the Middle Ages, eating eggs was forbidden during Len ...
Parmesan
A disc of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese weighs between 30 and over 40 kilograms (66 to over 88 pounds), on average about 40 kilograms.
It takes about 550 liters (145 gallons) of milk to produce one disc, with an average of 14 liters (3.7 gallons) per kilogram of cheese.