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Chocolate is EVERYWHERE in IMI

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IMI CHOCOLATE CAKES~!

IMI welcomes students back from mid-semester break with CHOCOLATE CAKES!!!!

HURRAY! They are almost finished!!!

Students are missing IMI's home-made chocolate cakes!

Hot Cacao which is good to students' health....BIG THANKS to IMI!!!

Why we love chocolate?

Chocolate's ingredients have a significant impact on brain chemistry, it is a drug, too, with specific pharmacological action.

The sweet stuff contains cannabinoids, the compounds responsible for the high of marijuana. More significantly, chocolate contains caffeine and two substances, tyramine and tryptophan, that the brain converts into the feel-good chemicals dopamine and serotonin.

Chocolate stimulates the brain's pleasure centers, even opening the wrapper and looking at the contents starts your serotonin fibers firing.

However, too much chocolate causes a headache. That's probably due to the rush of serotonin.

Milk Chocolate: A Love Story

funny video with milk chocolate rabbits' love story

Hot Chocolate or Red Wine or Green Tea?!?!

"Beyond the froth, cocoa teems with antioxidants that prevent cancer", Cornell University food scientists say. They have found that cocoa has nearly 2 times of the antioxidants of red wine and up to 3 times those found in green tea.

Can Chocolate Bar work the same way as Hot Chocolate?

"Although a bar of chocolate exhibits strong antioxidant activity, the health benefits are still controversial because of the SATURATED FATS present," the researchers write. They explain that cocoa has about one-third of a gram of fat per one-cup serving, compared with eight grams of fat in a standard-size 40-gram chocolate bar.

With hot cocoa in the morning, green tea in the afternoon and a glass of red wine in the evening. That's a good combination.

Chocolate Bath?!!!

Do you want to try?
Chocolate bath is a kind of business which is quite popular in Japan.
And it has a lot of fans especially coming to Valentines' Day!

Kissable Cheeks With Chocolate!

Check this out to see how chocolate addicted girls apply CHOCOLATE onto their make-up!!

Girls can give it a try~!

Frey - No.1 Manufacturer in Switzerland retail trade

video of how Frey is made

Frey is the Number 1 Manufacturer in Switzerland retail trade, which owned by the company Migros

It has different kind of chocolates produced, and in every season it produces one special edition to restore customers' interest in the brand. For example, this year's summer limited edition is white chocolate with blueberry.

Frey even applies Red Hot Chilli in its chocolate series, it shows Frey pays great effort on attracting new customers. Exquisite chocolate spheres with especially delicate filings such as Giandor or Noir Special. For sweet moments of melt-in-the-mouth chocolate pleasure.

Toblerone, the Triangular Chocolate?

Toblerone originates from the chocolatier's family name "Tobler" combined with "torrone", the Italian word for nougat.The Toblerone bar was modelled on a red and cream-frilled line of dancers at the Folies Bergères in Paris, forming a shapely pyramid at the end of a show.

Toblerone is the first patented milk chocolate bar with almonds and honey. And it's done in 1909 in Bern, Switzerland.

Ingredients:
To produce chocolate, milk is added. The milk in TOBLERONE comes mainly from Switzerland.
Californian almonds are mixed together with honey, sugar and egg white in our secret nougat recipe. It is this almond nougat that gives the Toblerone bar its unique taste.
Honey
Toblerone contains 3% Mexican honey. This honey has an intense aroma giving the Toblerone honey-almond nougat its exquisite flavour.

They have now 5 different products:
1) Original Toblerone (Toblerone Milk)
2) Toblerone Dark
3) Toblerone Honeycomb Crisp
4) Toblerone Fruit and Nuts
5) Toblerone White

addicted to chocolate

Video about Swiss Chocolate

Addicted to Swiss Chocolate

Confiserie Sprüngli

Sprüngli products not only offer the highest possible quality, they are also uniquely fresh and natural, for almost 175 years.

These delicate mini-macaroons, Luxemburgerlis, with their delicious fillings have become the emblem not just of Sprüngli, but of the whole world.
New flavours and fillings have been continually added to the range and are still made fresh every day with the help of traditional artisanal methods. Only natural ingredients without any preservatives or artificial colours are used. The most important ingredients – like cream, butter and eggs – are sourced from producers in Switzerland.


Traditional methods combined with new ideas
Products are created using a combination of traditional methods and the latest technology.
As well as its unique Luxemburgerlis, Confiserie Sprüngli also produces irresistible chocolate and cake creations, as well as many seasonal specialities and gift ideas for every occasion. Their Truffes du Jour, the world’s freshest truffles, are made fresh by hand every day and are enduringly popular. 
Lovers of dark chocolate can also indulge themselves with their Grand Cru creations made from the world's finest cocoa varieties. Sprüngli’s recipe for success is to provide the best quality – starting with the basic ingredients and continuing through the processing, packaging, presentation and sales advice.

LINDT - well-known Swiss Chocolate Brand

LOVE to buy the chocolate made by LINDT?
How much do you know how its chocolate is made?
Check it out with its worldwide advertisement!!

Wants to know more? You MUST go to the following site to experience updated electronic access!
LISTEN carefully what the chef says!
http://www.lindt.com/int/swf/eng/secrets-of-chocolate/

Swiss - Famous in Producing Chocolate

Why Is Swiss Chocolate the Best
This question is frequently asked by public, where it brings the Swiss chocolate industry with pride. It is a fact that the products of the Swiss chocolate industry produced the most compare to the entire world. The high quality of Swiss chocolate is due to a number of factors. What is decisive is the perfect quality of raw materials and state-of-the-art manufacturing methods combined with the strict quality requirements to be satisfied by the intermediate products. Not to forget the optimal processing into finished products and highly skilled personnel.

What Exactly Is Swiss Chocolate
"Swiss chocolate" is a chocolate mixture which consisted of: cocoa beans, cocoa mixture, cocoa butter, sugar and, in some cases, milk. These ingredients are manufactured entirely in Switzerland so they are called "Swiss Chocolate''. However, any other processing outside of Switzerland, for example shaping or packaging of the product, are explicitly stated on the package.