From Mayan gods to your favorite mug Chili peppers, these small but fiery fruits, have a history that stretches far back into the past. The ancient Mayans considered it a gift from the gods and used ...
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Chili: The fiery power of the Mayans and its benefits for our health
VIVA Radio Podcast: The Story of the Kakaw Co+ Brand with Martina Matejíčková
Natural Colombian cocoa, of "fino de aroma" quality, which has arrived in Slovakia and supplies hundreds of fans, carries with it an inspiring story! Listen to the story of the creation and developmen...
PODCAST THE EFFECTS OF REAL COCOA ON OUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
Listen to our founder, Martina Matejíčková, talk about her journey with cocoa and its amazing effects on our bodies and moods. The podcast is hosted by Andrejka Peniaková from Fitshaker. L...
IT'S SUMMER, WE'RE GETTING A TAN, SO LET'S SPOIL OURSELVES WITH COCOA BUTTER! ?
Cocoa butter is a natural fat of vegetable origin that is extracted after cooling from cocoa mass, i.e. from cocoa beans. After extraction, the original raw material, cocoa mass, produces two pr...
COCOA RESEARCH
Interview with Ms. RnDr. Iveta Bernátová, DrSc. Head of the Department of Experimental Hypertension, ÚNPF, CEM SAS Center for Experimental Medicine SAS Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology ...
ABOUT THE PROCESSING AND VARIETY OF COCOA FLAVORS
Discover the Cocoa World, which combines many topics. About the processing and variety of cocoa flavors Cocoa has long since ceased to belong only to children and is no longer divided into morni...
A Slovak woman who knows the true taste of cocoa
Her journey began in romantic Paris or picturesque Zurich, from there she set off for Latin America, which she fell in love with, and today she has brought a piece of Colombia, but also Peru, to Slova...
African sun-dried mango - a delicacy that is also extremely healthy.
The taste of fresh, juicy mangoes has bewitched many of us and no wonder. It is an extremely tasty and fragrant fruit. But have you tasted a really ripe mango? The kind of mango that ha...
Cocoa, the Food of the Gods
For thousands of years, the Guatemalans, descendants of the Mayans present in the territory, have been creating and testing different forms of the "food of the gods" - cacao and chocolate. We visited ...
The History of Chocolate
Can't imagine your life without chocolate? You're lucky you weren't born before the 16th century. Until then, chocolate existed only as a bitter, spicy frothy drink in Latin America. How did we make ...
Cocoa for peace
The Cocoa for Peace program is the result of a historic peace agreement signed in November 2016 between the Colombian government and leftist rebels known as the FARC after 53 years of civil war. As C...