Cane sugar is made from sugar canes. Thailand is one of the worlds biggest producers of sugar canes. Sugar is believed to be one of the oldest ingredients with a track record dating back to 8000 BC Sugar is the same addictive as cocaine and we already have a craving for sugar as newborn. You…
A Squid only has head and feet, but it has 3 harts. A squid belongs to the Cephalopods. Until now, there have been discovered more, than 300 different species of squid. An ancestor of today’s squid is known to have lived about 550 million years ago. The biggest type of squids can grow to a size…
Spring onion belongs to the onion family. Onions have grown wild over most of the world since the beginning of times and have been known to be human food for more than 5000 years. Through cultivation and breeding have the onions types we know today been developed and selected. Even it is not completely clear…
Soy sauce is one of the worlds oldest condiments, it has been known since 200 BC. When made the old fashioned way and from healthy raw materials, soy sauce is said to be a healthy product. I will not say what is correct. I will merely compare some facts. It can take months to make…
Shiitake Mushroom is one of the healthiest foods on the planet. Shiitake mushrooms have been around since prehistoric times. For thousands of years, they have played a major role in traditional medicine all over Asia, where they are originated. As I will not give health advises, on my site, because I am not a doctor, I…
Is it called a called shrimp or a prawn? Neither shrimp nor prawn is the correct scientific names they are both common names. Those names are both vernacular or colloquial names, you can say it just names people have made up. They have nothing whatsoever to do with the correct scientific names. A little like…
Humans started to extract salt as far back as 6050 BC. In the Roman empire, salt was also used as a payment method when the soldiers should have their salary. The value of salt was the same as the value of gold. Salarium is the Latin word for salary, and the word salt comes from this…
Red leaf lettuce is the red variant of one of the 6 subspecies of lettuce. The cultivation of lettuce dates back to the Egyptians 4500 years ago. Lettuce is properly derived from wild weed and through careful breeding, we have the hundreds of lettuce we know today. The farmers have though selection, being able to…
There are many types of raisins. The definition of raisins is that they are dried grapes. So all kind of dried grapes is raisins. And with more than 10,000 varieties of wine grapes in the world, there is a lot of different raisins. But you do not see 10.000 different kinds of raisins in your…
Pork is the most consumed meat worldwide. A wild pig-like animal dates back more than 40 million years. There have been found evidence that pigs were domesticated and hold as livestock since 5000 BC in China. In 1500 BC the domesticated pig has spread to Europe. Pork consumption accounts for about 38% of the total…