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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