Food

It is less caloric than white sugar or honey.

Modern pizza has an Italian origin.

The first pizzeria was opened in 1830 in Naples.

It probably did not appear in France until 1644, and the French elite had the opportunity to taste the drink in 1669 at a party given by Ottoman envoy Mustafa Pasha.

Dr. Navindra P. Seeram, an American professor who studies medicinal plants and their natural derivatives, said: “I continue to say that nature is the best chemist, and that maple syrup is becoming a champion food when it comes to the number and variety of beneficial compounds found in it.”

The Americans consume about 155 million hot dogs each year on Independence Day.

The term sushi refers to rice soaked in rice vinegar.

The most expensive pizza, the Louis XIII, costs US$12,000.

Scientists are working on a use for tea mushrooms other than making kombucha.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, apart from maple syrup, sugar was also produced from maple juice.