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  • Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans



    The Jelly Belly Candy Company, USA came up with these magical Harry Potter inspired flavors. Each Bertie Bott's 4.25 oz box holds 10 weird flavors such as vomit, earwax, earthworms, boogers and dirt, among others. The names certainly sound gross and according to people who have tasted it, each candy tastes like what it's supposed to be.

  • Ammonium Chloride Candy



    Ammonium chloride is naturally produced in volcanoes and it is normally used in making dry batteries. However, in Finland ammonium chloride is the main ingredient in "salamiakki", a Finnish candy. Sometimes, the Finnish also dissolve this candy into their vodka drinks.

  • Mutton Caramel Candy



    A Japanese food manufacturer in Hokkaido came up with the idea of producing the Genghis Khan Caramel, made of mutton extract. It is said that this candy tastes like normal caramel at first and then has a strange taste of BBQ mutton with garlic thereafter.

  • Vosges Exotic Candy Bars



    Vosges is an American chocolatier that has ventured into specialty chocolate with a twist of exotic spices. Vosges original exotic lineup includes "Naga", which is milk chocolate with Indian curry, coconut and "Red Fire", which is a mixture of dark chocolate with Mexican chipotle chili peppers and Ceylonese cinnamon.

  • Tasty Tuna Tidbit



    The Jane-Jane Tasty Tuna Tidbit is a Japanese fish candy made of tuna fish, soy sauce and sugar. It tastes and smells fishy.

  • Uncle Oinker's Savory Bacon Mints



    This mint is definitely not your ordinary breath refresher. Each mint tastes like salty, crispy bacon with a hint of mint. Each regular tin contains 100 pieces of mint.

  • Sunny Foods Mallow Pizza



    Sunny Products Development Ltd, USA came up with this marshmallow pizza complete with the all-time favourite marshmallow pizza toppings.What else?

  • Bacon Chocolate Bar



    A Chicago based chocolatier, Coco Rougue, created this bacon chocolate bar. It is actually made up of dark chocolate with pieces of crispy salty bacon evenly distributed inside the chocolate bar. The contrast tastes between the bittersweet chocolate and the salty bacon definitely makes this chocolate bar a unique product.

  • Mitarashi Dango Gummy



    A Japanese company was inspired by the famous Japanese festive snacks called the Mitarashi Dango, and he created these gummies. Mitarashi Dango is a glutonious rice snack, shaped into a ball, covered with a generous amount of sweet soy sauce. Whereas, the gummies are also shaped into small balls with a soft texture and salty soy sauce in the mid section.

  • Wasabi Chocolate



    This Japanese wasabi chocolate is made of white chocolate with horseradish. It tastes rather strange with the sweetness of the chocolate followed by the spicy horseradish aftertaste.
    • ]]>     Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:27:23 PST     Nendhran: The Indian Banana http://www.trifter.com/Practical-Travel/World-Cuisine/Nendhran-The-Indian-Banana.44138 Banana is well known fruit tree which needs no description. There are very many varieties in this species. As a fruit, it is called banana and consumed as such in well ripen form. The unripe banana is called plantain and used for culinary purposes. The banana fruit is highly nutritional and is also a staple food.

    Banana leaf is used for serving food. Banana tree has a pseudo stem and used as vegetable. The flowers of banana are also used in cooking.

    Medicinal use:

    1. The skin and pulp of raw banana fruit contains anti fungal substances. The well ripened fruit has both anti-fungal and anti bacterial properties.
    2. The flowers of banana are cooked and consumed with curd to get relief from menstrual pain and excessive bleeding. The juice of banana flowers is effective in controlling dysentery.
    3. The juice simply crushed out of core banana stem has got very good medicinal use. This is used in urinary disorders.
    4. Consumption of raw juice alleviates the pain and discomfort in abdominal area. This acts on kidneys and liver to improve their functioning in excretion of more urinary substances. It removes toxins, crystals and stones in the kidneys, gall bladder and prostrate glands as well in the urinary passage.
    5. Banana is a simple nutritive food that promotes digestion, maintains youthfulness. Generally, it is considered to be having natural anti-aging properties.

    Enjoy a Surprising, Delicious Recipe!

    Nendhran variety of banana is versatile in its use.

    The Nendhran fruit as such is consumed or some semi ripe fruits after peeling are cut into thick pieces and mixed with jaggary or country sugar while shallow fried with coconut oil.

    1. Banana Chips

      Just peel unripe Nendhran banana fruit and keep aside the peeled outer skin. The banana is sliced by a simple knife attached chipper. The thin banana slices are deep fried in coconut oil. These Nendhran chips are very famous and are flown to Arab countries almost daily. It is a good deep fried snack goes well for biting with evening tea.

    2. Banana Candy

      The Nendhran banana chipped slightly thicker and divided into 4 bits of a slice and deep fired to have good biting sense while taking a tea.

    3. Banana Vegetable Curry

      The skinned out banana peels are cut into small pieces and cooked; added with onion, chillies and salt and shallow fried to use as a side dish for the supper with rice.

    4. Banana Sweet Porridge

      In temples, well ripened banana fruits are mashed and mixed with other fruits like dates, dried grapes and spices like cardamom to bring into a natural honey like soft and sweet dish offered to deities and later consumed by all devotees.

    Banana is a natural body building nutrient rich fruit that is special in all special occasions.

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