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Saturday, 16 May 2026
15 facts about french fries
15 facts about french fries
Not so French after all
It is not known where the fries come from. Some say from France, others, Belgium. Whatever the truth, one thing is certain–they are delicious, and pro ...

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Honey
Honey is produced by bees of the genus Apis and stingless bees (Melipona - a tribe in the bee family, which includes about 250 species found in the tropics or subtropics).
They carry flower nectar or honeydew to the hives. Under the influence of enzymes and formic acid, s ...
Honey
Honey is divided into nectar (flower) and honeydew honey.
As a rule, floral honeys are light in color, some only have a dark yellow to brown tint. However, th ...
Cheesecake
The world’s largest cheesecake weighed 3 tons and 129 kilograms.
It was created on the occasion of the “Ninth Cheesecake Festival” in 2013 and made it into the Guinn ...
Wagyū Beef
Japan's Wagyū beef brands compete in the Wagyū Olympics.
The battle is fought for prestige between the biggest players, the absolute top of which are: Kobe, ...
Pizza
An Alaskan restaurant, Airport Pizza, delivers pizza by plane.
Halva
In many countries around the world, but mostly in Turkey, is used as a bread spread.
Kombucha
Kombucha is a blend of natural probiotics (fungi and bacteria), organic acids (acetic, glyconic, glucuronic, citric, lactic, tartaric, malonic, oxalic, succinic, pyruvic, tin), small amounts of sugars (sucrose, glucose and fructose), B vitamins (B1, B2, B6, B12), vitamin C, 14 amino acids, purines, pigments, lipids, proteins.
In addition, there are some hydrolytic enzymes, ethanol, substances that exhibit antibiotic activity ...
Beer
Barley provides starch, which is converted into fermentable sugars.
Many breweries replace some of the malts with unmalted raw materials with similar properties.
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 ...
Parmesan
Parmesan is a hard rennet type cheese, made from semi-skimmed cow's milk and aged for at least twelve months.
Rennet cheeses are a type of cheese made by denaturing milk with rennet (a digestive enzyme). Rennet ...