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Monday, 8 December 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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Pizza
Apparently, the Swedish also like their pizza sweet.
Instead of pineapple, they prefer bananas. Sometimes, they sprinkle it with curry powder to add more spice.
Halva
Soapberry extract (Saponaria officinalis) is used in the production of some grades of halva.
It is used to facilitate the foaming of the caramel mass. Because the plant contains poisonous sapon ...
Mozzarella
It is difficult to determine when mozzarella began to be made. Surely the production of this cheese has a long history.
History says that the Romans already in the second half of the 1st century BC were the first in the ...
Maple syrup
The harvesting of maple sap was accompanied by specific rituals.
The first day of the spring full moon was a harvest festival - that was when the Maple Dance was performed. Some tribes hold "maple moon" festivals to celebrate a return to old traditions.
Maple syrup
Maple syrup is made from the sap of maple trees.
Mainly three species of maple are used for production: sugar maple (Acer saccharum), black maple (Ac ...
Tomato juice
One of the most popular alcoholic cocktails based on tomato juice is the Bloody Mary.
This drink gained popularity in the 1950s. It consists of vodka (3/10), tomato juice (6/10), and lem ...
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 ...
Kimchi
Kimchi is a wealth of nutrients.
There are many vitamins in fermented napa cabbage (mainly A, C and B) as well as at least 10 different minerals and over 34 amino acids.
Mozzarella
There is 288 kcal in 100 grams of buffalo mozzarella.
Cow's milk mozzarella is less caloric, 100 g contains 253 kcal.
Cheesecake
The history of cheesecake dates back to ancient times.
The ancient form of cheesecake may have been a popular dessert in Greece, even before its conquest b ...