Food and drink

The sale of artificially flavored pomegranate sauces that give the impression of pure pomegranate syrup will be banned in Türkiye as of June 30, 2024.

On March 24, the regulation amending the Turkish Food Codex prepared by the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry was published in the Official Gazette.

Six years ago a small Maribor-based family-run business Kokica brought the first gourmet popcorn to the Slovenian market. The popcorn in vibrant colours under the trademark Pokica now fills the shelves of Slovenian and Swiss stores, with plans to expand to Germany and one day to the US.

Some 62.4 percent of children aged 6 months and above consume grain-containing food every day, while the rate of children consuming meat is 12.7 percent, data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) has revealed.

Some of the citizens in the quake-stricken southern province of Hatay who had to leave the city have started to return one by one.

Mehmet Dönmez, a barber whose workplace was destroyed in the devastating quakes, is one of the people who have returned to their hometown.

The Household Basket is a successful measure that, in combination with the Market Pass, has helped to lower inflation, Development and Investment Minister Adonis Georgiadis asserted in a press conference held on Wednesday.

"There is a saying regarding Ukrainians who are at war and Ukrainian farmers - I can be kind to you, but I am kinder to myself.

India will be hosting a global conference at New Delhi on 18 March 2023 to popularize millets as super foods which could enhance health as well as protect the environment. The conference is being organized by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare In the context of the United Nations declaring year 2023 as the International Year of Millets 2023.

Following the application of the Antakya Chamber of Commerce and Industry to the European Union (EU), the southern province of Antakya's famous künefe dessert has been put under protection as a registered geographical indication and traditional specialty.

Livestock breeding in Bulgaria is on the verge of bankruptcy, warned representatives of organizations in the sector.

At a general meeting, they requested a meeting with the president, the acting prime minister and the finance minister, but such a meeting has not yet been set.

Livestock breeders are also ready for effective protests.

The Dobruja pie (banitsa) became a protected product of Romania. It has been fighting for this since 2017, said Prof. Dr. Ana Kocheva from the Bulgarian Language Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. "As I understand it, this will be, in front of the world, the true origin of this product.