Nutella

Turkey has exported 191,656 tons of hazelnuts over the past seven months with a 25 percent hike year-on-year, the Black Sea Hazelnut and Products Exporters' Union announced on April 2.

A discount on Nutella has led to violent scenes in a chain of French supermarkets, as shoppers jostled to grab a bargain on the sweet spread.

Intermarché supermarkets offered a 70% discount on Nutella, bringing the price down from €4.50 (£3.90) to €1.40.

But police were called when people began fighting and pushing one another.

Food, Agriculture and Livestock Minister Faruk Çelik has said his office has launched work to detect food thought to include palm oil in its ingredients, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The ministry issued a statement on Jan. 15 after media reports on controversial palm oil, saying it was considered necessary to conduct an investigation based on public health concerns.   

The new trend in Sydney is called tella ball shake and it is a delicious Nutella milkshake with a Nutella-filled doughnut on the top.

Chocolate and chocolate equals happiness forever! This amazing shake is served at Foodcraft Espresso in Erskineville and has driven everyone crazy.

A spot just northwest of Milan has to be the epicenter of the most exciting plates on earth these days. Since its opening on May 1, the Milan Expo 2015 has been hosting the most notable chefs, as well as humble cooks from all over the world to display their culinary creations or traditional dishes of national or regional pride.

Billionaire Michele Ferrero, who became Italy's richest man with a confectionary empire built on his popular Nutella spread, has died at the age of 89.
      
Ferrero had been battling illness for several months. He died in Monte Carlo on Saturday.
     

Turkey, the world's largest hazelnut producer, earned $2.3 billion from hazelnut exports in 2014, the Hazelnut Promotion Group announced late Jan. 4. 

Turkey shipped more than 252,500 tons of hazelnuts to almost 110 countries in 2014, said the head of the Hazelnut Promotion Group, Edip Sevinç.

Fans of chocolate spread Nutella or the hazelnut-filled Ferrero Rocher could soon be facing rising bills for their nutty treats because of poor weather in Turkey.
      

There is a term in Turkish, very much repeated every mid-summer in Istanbul that can be translated as “to go nuts;” not in the sense of losing one’s mind, but leaving for the countryside for the hazelnut harvest. Many hazelnut growers have links with Istanbul, as most have jobs in the service sector, but when it is the season for hazelnut picking, it is hard to keep them in the city.