Food

Since 1997, neither cattle nor their genetic material can be exported outside Japan.

There are several basic types of chocolate, depending on the cocoa liquor content and, since 2017, also the cocoa variety from which it was made.

The egg is one of the staple foods.

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 cocoa nibs, mainly the seeds, are ground into cocoa mass, also known as cocoa crumbs or cocoa liquor.

It is difficult to determine when mozzarella began to be made. Surely the production of this cheese has a long history.

Tea mushroom has a gelatinous structure with a white or light orange color.

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).

In the past, cheese was usually packed in black wax. Nowadays this is rarely done.

Most types of halva are relatively thick confectionery sweetened with honey or sugar but of different texture.