Čokolešnik is a primarily children's food made by

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, a food company from

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Ingredients

Čokolešnik is a food primarily intended for children over the age of four months but is often consumed by adults as well. It has high nutrition value made out of 60.2%

wheat flour Wheat flour is a powder made from the grinding of common wheat used for human consumption. Wheat varieties are called "soft" or "weak" if gluten content is low, and are called "hard" or "strong" if they have high gluten content. Hard flour, or ...

, 6%

chocolate Chocolate is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa beans that can be a liquid, solid, or paste, either by itself or to flavoring, flavor other foods. Cocoa beans are the processed seeds of the cacao tree (''Theobroma cacao''); unprocesse ...

in powder and 2%

hazelnut The hazelnut is the fruit of the hazel tree and therefore includes any of the nuts deriving from species of the genus '' Corylus'', especially the nuts of the species ''Corylus avellana''. They are also known as cobnuts or filberts according to ...

s. The rest of ingredients are vitamins ( B₁, B₂, B₆, and B₁₂). It may contain milk but does not require any kind of cooking.

History

It was first produced since 1980 by the

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n company

Droga Kolinska Droga Kolinska is a Slovenian food processing company from Slovenia, majority owned by Croatian Atlantic Grupa. History Droga Kolinska came into existence with the merger of the companies Droga d.d. from Portorož and Kolinska d.d. from Ljubljan ...

, as part of a "Bebi" program of instant porridges with many flavors, including "rižko" (with rice), "medenko" (with honey), "karamelko" (with caramel), "vanilko" (with vanilla) and "čoko" (with chocolate), among others. The most popular flavors of these, Čokolešnik and Čoko, survived to this day and continue to be the two main brands of this product. Bebi withdrew from Slovenia and other countries of Southeast Europe in 2007, but remained in the markets of the former Soviet Union.str. 48
Letno poročilo družbe Droga Kolinska, d. d., in Skupine Droga Kolinska ZA LETO 2006
Maj 2007. Droga Kolinska, d. d..''seonet.ljse.si'' The Čokolešnik and Čoko brands were sold to the Croatian food company

on January 1, 2009. After the sale of the Čokolešnik and Čoko brands, Droga Kolinska stopped selling the Bebi brand in early April 2009 due to deteriorating sales in Russia and Ukraine. The Bebi program was divided into the Bebi, Bebi premium and Bebi junior lines. In 2020, the brand was bought by the Serbian group Nelt. The Mirna factory was not part of the sale. The small town of

Koprivnica Koprivnica () is a city in Northern Croatia, located 70 kilometers northeast of Zagreb. It is the capital and the largest city of Koprivnica-Križevci County. In 2011, the city's administrative area of 90.94 km2 had a total populati ...

built a museum to honor the brand that owns it. The brand

is highly popular in other European countries for producing other products, such as

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, a popular flavor enhancer in

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and in

References

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