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Friday, 14 August 2026
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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Halva
Followers of a raw food diet crave raw halva, made with raw ingredients–tahini, almonds, agave nectar, and salt, mixed and frozen until firm.
Coffee
Coffee fruits were used as early as the 1st century BC in Ethiopia.
Coffee was likely discovered by the Oromo people living in Ethiopia’s Kaffa region, harvesting it fr ...
Kimchi
The word kimchi comes from the Chinese chimchae, meaning salted vegetables.
The first kimchi was prepared in Korea in the 6th century when people were looking for a way to store turnips over the winter.
Halva
In Mesopotamia, halva was a mixture of honey and nuts.
In ancient Greece and Rome, sweets similar to halva were prepared with honey, nuts, and sesame seeds ...
Beer
Beer was a very common beverage back in ancient times.
Beer is mentioned in early ancient Egypt records. It appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Me ...
Cheddar
It contains large amounts of cholesterol.
In 100 grams you will find about 33% of the daily recommended intake.
Eggs
The largest bird eggs come from ostriches.
An ostrich egg weighs between 1.2 and 2 kg, its length ranges from 13.3 to 17 cm, and the shell can ...
Honey
Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance produced by honey bees and some other Hymenoptera (such as wasps).
Bees produce honey from the sugary secretions of plants (flower nectar) or the secretions of other insects (honeydew) by returning food, enzymatic activity, and evaporating water.
Kimchi
Kimchi has a positive effect on the heart, lowering cholesterol and sugar levels.
Coffee
The first European to describe coffee was the German botanist and traveler Leonhard Rauwolf.
His records show that coffee may have reached Europe as early as the 16th century thanks to imports by two East India companies: the British and the Dutch.