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Friday, 12 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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Churro
Churros resemble doughnuts but are created from steamed dough.
Native doughnuts, as well as the aforementioned Chinese youtiao, are made from deep-fried yeast dough.Churros are prepared by squeezing the previously prepared steamed dough directly into the fat.
Sushi
Modern sushi became popular in the 1820s.
By adding rice vinegar, the fermentation process shortened, and people started combining fresh fish with vinegared rice.
Churro
Churros can be served to us in many shapes.
The traditionally known form is medium-thick sticks with gouges on the sides, but this is not the on ...
Maple syrup
In the 17th and 18th centuries, apart from maple syrup, sugar was also produced from maple juice.
In the 19th century, during the Civil War, maple sugar was replaced by cane sugar, which began to do ...
Coffee
In 1900, in the United States, the Hills Bros. company began packaging coffee in vacuum packs.
This procedure helped prolong the freshness of the coffee and was the driving force behind subsequen ...
Kombucha
The emergence of American sweetened and carbonated beverages on the market has made kombucha or sour bread an unpopular relic.
Western corporations have succeeded, within fifty years, in completely displacing from our culture a beverage that was regularly consumed in central and eastern Europe for hundreds of years.
Maple syrup
The Algonquins of the Ottawa River in southern Quebec treated maple juice as a nutritious energy drink.
In early spring, they used stone tools to make V-shaped incisions in maple trunks. Then they placed ...
Coffee
In Salzburg, the first café was opened in 1703 and the café still exists today.
It is called Café Tomaselli and is the oldest café still in existence in Western Europe.It was frequ ...
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 ...
Maple syrup
It is less caloric than white sugar or honey.
It contains small amounts of protein and fat. Since it does not contain any preservatives, it can be ...