Cocoa and vanilla are almost inseparably connected to each other. The Aztecs also used vanilla to flavour their chocolate drink. Its home is found in southeast Mexico...  read on

The word, truffle, is generally understood to mean a chocolate-like preparation of particularly high quality. It is made from chocolate or cocoa mass, cocoa...  read on

This variety of cocoa tree originally comes from the island of Trinidad, which is also its namesake. Up until 1727 only Criollo cocoa trees were cultivated on...  read on

“May contain traces of…” This sentence, whether it is finished with nuts, milk etc., is on nearly every chocolate wrapper. It is advice that is voluntarily provided by RITTER SPORT. For years, we have let our customers...  read on

The genus, Theobroma, includes 22 different varieties of plants, but chocolate can only be made from the cocoa beans of Theobroma Cacao L.. Carl von Linné gave cocoa beans their name in 1735, approximately...  read on

Whey consists of water (approx. 94%), nutritionally physiologically valuable whey protein (approx. 0.8%), lactose (approx. 4-5%), and valuable minerals (approx. 0.6%). It is creamy white and has a sweetish fuller flavour...  read on

Sunflower seeds are obviously the seeds of sunflowers. They contain 49% sunflower oil, 22% protein, 12% carbohydrates, 6% dietary fibres, and 3% minerals. Their oil content makes them an important...  read on

Raisin is the generic term for all dried grapes. The sultana owes its name to the fact that it took more than one hundred years before farmers achieved their goal of growing a seedless grape. The new variety was...  read on

Sugar is a sweet tasting carbohydrate that occurs in many forms in nature. Sugar plays an important role in our diet. There is a difference between cane sugar made from sugar cane and beet sugar made from sugar...  read on

Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) is a member of the Poaceae family and is common in tropical and subtropical countries. Its history probably began in New Guinea. Today's main cultivation regions are India, Australia...  read on