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Spain gets through 3.03 kg of chocolate and cocoa per person per year, around 8 grams a day on average, according to the 2024 food consumption report from the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. That happens to be close to the amount that appears in the European scientific opinion b..

Creatine has left the gym. In 2026 the press treats it as a general wellbeing supplement rather than a bodybuilding product, and the searches that reach a shop like ours no longer ask about sets and reps: they ask about memory, brain fog and the menopause. The problem is that European regulation has..

Oats have had the best press of any grain for ten years and are among the least eaten foods in Spain, which is where our three shops are, in Barcelona and Sant Cugat. The ANIBES study, run on the Spanish population, measured an average intake of 0.6 grams per person per day, because only 3.3 % of pe..

Since 2019 not a year has gone by without a food safety agency ruling on turmeric supplements. Italy made a warning on the label compulsory, the French agency set a maximum dose, the UK toxicity committee published a dedicated assessment, Canada imposed mandatory warning text and, in April 2026, th..

A vitamin D supplement can say "2,000 % NRV" on the label without containing twenty times what you need. What it means is that the reference value used by European labelling is 5 micrograms, that EFSA — the European Food Safety Authority, the scientific body that advises the European Union on food ..

"How much olive oil per day" is one of those questions that sounds like common sense and that almost nobody answers with a number. The striking part is that the number exists, it sits in a European regulation and no brand invented it: 20 grams a day. It is not a dietary recommendation. It is the am..

Every autumn it goes the same way. The light changes, the holidays end, the first week of rain arrives and half the country wakes up with no battery. We have a name for the feeling — autumn fatigue — and a name for the fix too: a bottle. This season the most searched-for bottle is iron, because iron..

The bottle says «supports digestion» and contains twelve enzymes with names ending in -ase. The intuition is flawless: if digestion is hard work, adding enzymes should help. The problem is that digestion almost never fails for lack of enzymes, and a good part of this market rests on that intuition r..

Every October the sacks of chestnuts come back to the market stalls, and with them the same question: if it's a nut, does it pile on the calories like a handful of walnuts? The short answer is no, and the reason has nothing to do with calories: it's that a chestnut contains almost no fat. A hundred ..

On the shelf there are bottles with 5 billion bacteria and bottles with 100 billion. The second one costs considerably more, the number on the lid is twenty times bigger and almost everyone draws the same conclusion: that it must be twenty times better. It is the only large, easily comparable figure..

Cortisol has become the culprit for everything: the belly, the puffy face, the five o'clock slump and the broken nights. And with the culprit came the remedy: ashwagandha, the ayurvedic root that now takes up half a shelf of supplements in any shop in Europe and turns up in almost every wellness vid..

September is when the walnut harvest starts here in Catalonia, and the same question comes back across the counter: how many should you eat a day. The answer has something rare in nutrition going for it — there is an official number. In 2012 the European Union authorised a health claim for walnuts, ..