Chocolate

50 grams of the most expensive chocolate in the world cost more than 300 euros. It is made from a very rare variety of cocoa beans, which are 5300 years old. It would have probably disappeared if they were not so enthusiastic people like Servo Pachar.

Two trailers loaded with 44 tons of chocolate have disappeared on Friday night from an industrial area in the city of Freiburg and the police can not find the thieves yet.
 
Chocolate is worth € 400,000.
 

A discount on Nutella has led to violent scenes in a chain of French supermarkets, as shoppers jostled to grab a bargain on the sweet spread.

Intermarché supermarkets offered a 70% discount on Nutella, bringing the price down from €4.50 (£3.90) to €1.40.

But police were called when people began fighting and pushing one another.

Black chocolate lovers will surely be glad to learn that it is useful against high blood pressure and reduces the risk of heart attack, according to a US study.

Complete new rules for nutrition in schools and kindergartens are being prepared by the government, says Nova. What will children eat during the new school year and which foods will be totally forbidden?

Some days ago, the sale of sugar-added beverages in schools in Europe was officially banned. The measure came from the producers themselves. 

Coffee just isn’t cutting it anymore, apparently.

A Harvard University study suggests that eating moderate amounts of chocolate could reduce the risks of a potential heart condition by one quarter. The research was conducted on a sample of more than 50,000 people and found strong links between a weekly consumption of the sweet and lowered a heart condition known as flutter.

The price of cocoa extended its biggest weekly rise in five years as a revolt unravels in Cote d'Ivoire, which produces almost half of the world's cocoa beans.

Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul is organizing a chocolate making course on April 23 National Sovereignty and Children's Day for children between the ages of 5 and 10.  

The first sound I hear upon entering İzmir's Chocolate Festival is the piercing wail of a seven-year-old boy crying that there is no place left for the kids chocolate-making workshop. His mother, a long-legged 20-something who looks like she never let a single chocolate cross her lips, tells him she will get him to the next one.