【推荐1】Many people have a sweet tooth. Here are some popular types of candy for them.

Pop Rocks

Pop Rocks differs from typical hard candy because it dissolves in the mouth with popping. It was invented by William A. Mitchell, a food scientist at General Foods. While trying to design an instant soft drink, he put some sugar flavoring mixed with carbon dioxide in his mouth. The exploding candy became a cultural phenomenon after it hit the market.

Milk Duds

Milk Duds are a caramel (焦糖) ball, covered with a chocolate coating made from cocoa and vegetable oil. They were created in 1928. In 2008, the Hershey Company changed the ingredients (原料) of some of its products to replace the relatively expensive cocoa butter. This was done to maintain the current product price, rather than having to raise the prices of products containing cocoa butter. It also changed the packaging and description of the products.

Riesen

Riesen was Germany’s very first candy brand. It was created in the 1930s and quickly became a popular candy due to its attractive caramel taste. The secret lies in the rich caramel filling, which is covered by a thick layer of dark chocolate. Its fans all over the world still love the particularly chocolaty taste.

Starburst

Starburst is the brand name of a type of box-shaped soft taffy candy. It was invented around 1960 by the Wrigley Company, and the owner of it is Mars. This candy has different flavors like the strawberry, orange, cherry, and lemon. It has many varieties like Tropical, Sour, Strawberry Mix, Berries and Creme, and Candy Corn.

【推荐2】Coffee grown worldwide can date back to the ancient forests of Ethiopia. There, legend says the goat herder Kaldi first discovered coffee bean after he noticed that after eating the fruits from a certain tree, his goats became so energetic that they did not want to sleep at night. Coffee trade began on the Arabian Peninsula. By the 16th century it was known in Persia, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey.

Coffee was hardly known in Europe before the 17th century. The Venetians were the first people to bring coffee into Europe. The first European coffee houses started opening in Italy around 1645. In the following 100 years, at least 3000 coffee houses were operating in England. It was the coffee houses of England that started the custom of tipping waiters and waitresses. In a short time, coffee and coffee houses spread throughout Europe. In 1822, a Frenchman Louis Bernard Rabaut invented a machine which forced the hot water through the coffee grounds using steam instead of merely letting it drip through. The first espresso machine (咖啡机) had been born.

In the coffee industry, there are two important coffee species — Arabica and Robusta. Arabica originates from the coffee trees discovered in Ethiopia. It represents about 70% of the world’s coffee production. Arabica coffees bring the highest prices on the world market. Meanwhile, these coffee trees require additional care and attention. Robusta is primarily used for instant coffees. The Robusta bean itself tends to be slightly rounder and smaller than an Arabica bean. It can produce a coffee which has a distinctive taste and about 50-60% more caffeine. The Robusta tree is more resistant to disease, which makes it easier and cheaper to grow.

To preserve coffee beans’ fresh roasted flavor as long as possible, you can store them in an air-tight container (容器) at room temperature. Coffee beans can be beautiful, but avoid clear containers which will allow light to influence thee taste of your coffee. Exposure to air is bad for your beans. If you do freeze your beans, be sure to use a truly air-tight container.

【推荐3】You could dunk (泡一泡), twist, lick or bite it. Though consumers have no agree mention the best way to enjoy Oreos, a kind of sandwich cookies, the ways of eating the cookies are really so attractive.

Food scientists and specialists in the field of sensory studies, however, can offer some research-backed methods for gathering pleasure from an Oreo.

The 40 billion Oreos produced each year are commonly sweet, but they also pack a certain amount of fat. And as food scientists know, sugar and fat make a winning mixture if you reaiming to inspire your brain’s reward system.

But Oreos don’t attract you with taste alone; scents have a huge impact on the eating experience. When you bite into an Oreo, chemicals in the cookie release odor ants into the air inside your mouth. These scents flow to your nasal cavity (鼻腔), where they interact with smell receptors (感受器) and enter your brain’s decoding (解码) process. Your brain is likely to find those smells delightful, says Charles Spence, a professor of experimental psychology at the UK’s University of Oxford. Spence says chocolate and vanilla are two of the world’s most liked smells.

Childhood memories are probably another key driver of our Oreo enjoyment. Foods that stimulate memories have been linked to positive emotions, suggests a paper. So, whether you’re a dunker, a twister, a licker or a fast snacker, you might boost your cookie experience by stimulating simpler, more carefree moments, and eating like you’re a kid again. Oreos might remind you of that period of your life when you were looked after. Biting into an Oreois like your brain saying: Somebody loves you.

【推荐2】Museums around the World

Location: St. Petersburg, Russia

Number of annual visitors: 4.96 million

The State Hermitage is the second-largest art museum in the world, after the Louvre. The museum has in its collection over 3 million items and boasts the world’s largest collection of paintings. Only a part of the collection is on permanent display and includes Greek, Egyptian and Roman antiques, Renaissance paintings, Impressionist works and much more.

Location: Shanghai, China

Number of annual visitors: 4.82 million

One of China’s most popular museums, Shanghai’s Science and Technology Museum offers fun exhibitions that will nurture your mind. The museum has permanent exhibitions dedicated to the wonders of the Earth, the human body, innovation and invention, robotics and more.

Location: Washington, D.C.

Number of annual visitors: 4.07 million

The National Gallery is located on D.C.’s culturally rich National Mall and has some of the most important pieces of Western art found in the U.S.— including “Ginevra de’ Benci,” Da Vinci’s only publicly displayed painting in the Americas.

Location: London, England

Number of annual visitors: 6.1 million

Built as a response to the limited space at London’s National Gallery, the Tate is now one of the most important contemporary art institutions on the planet. You can see Cubist paintings by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso as well as works by Juan Gris, Paul Klee, Monet, Dali and more.