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Candy anyone?

DENTISTS have said that it’s okay for parents to let their kids eat up as much candy as they want at one time. There are a few reasons for this: if you eat five candy bars at one time, your mouth will salivate more than if you eat one each hour for five hours. All that saliva will neutralise the harmful acids that corrode teeth. If you eat one each hour, there is more acid than saliva, which harms them.


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What’s in a name?

IN America it is called cotton candy, “candyfloss” in the UK and India, “fairy floss” in Australia and Finland, “papa’s beard” (barbe à papa) in France, and “old ladies’ hair” in Greece. However, threads of cotton candy are thinner than a human hair!


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Largest chocolate bar by weight

THE largest chocolate bar weighed 5,792.50 kg and was created by Thorntons plc (UK) in Alfreton, Derbyshire, on October 7, 2011. The chocolate bar measured 4.0 m by 4.0 m by 0.35 m. The ingredients were sugar, dried whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, butter oil, emulsifier.


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Marshmallow

MARSHMALLOWS date back to as early as 2000 BC and were considered a delicacy deemed worthy only for gods and royalty. During those times, Egyptians made individual marshmallows by hand by extracting sap from a mallow plant and mixing it with nuts and honey.

This delicious sweet developed a new form when, in the 1800s, candy makers in France took the sap from marshmallow plants and combined it with egg whites and sugar. The mixture was whipped by hand and took the form of the marshmallow we all know today.

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