I picked up this Stevia chocolate bar for 50c on clearance for my diabetic husband. It has a real coconut flavour. He says it's ok, of course he much prefers a real chocolate bar. Maybe he is not fond of dark chocolate.
Adam posted an interesting fact on Alexander Fleming the other day. Fleming, a biologist, discovered penicillin accidentally in 1927. I went to Wikipedia to learn more about this. It seems Fleming was studying bacteria and returned from vacation to find that one of his cultures had become contaminated with a fungus. He noticed the bacteria around it had been destroyed. He published his discovery in a scientific journal in 1929. However subsequent clinical trials proved inconclusive. The problem may have been that it was initially used as a surface antiseptic. Fleming kept trying but gave up in 1940 just at the time some chemists (Chain, Florey, Heatley) from Oxford started to research it for mass production using government grants. They devised the correct structure of penicillin and were then able mass produce it. The drug was used to treat wounded allies after Pearl Harbour in 1944. This led to mass production and distribution in 1945.
It was interesting to me that this miracle drug was 18 years in the making! It certainly required a lot of teamwork.
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And what a lifesaver penicillin was! Hugs, Valerie
Stevia chocolate looks interesting. Penicillin has been one of amazing drug that was invented in last century.
People talk about how Fleming discovered penicillin by accident so much that I never knew it took 18 more years for it to be mass-produced, or that he wasn't the one who perfected it.
Imagine where we would be without it
A wonder drug. Interesting information.
Thank you. Love love, Andrew. Bye.
I did not know that about penicillin. When I was in Thailand in 1969, my ankle got infected so the Thai doctor gave me penicillin injections over a period of time. It cured my infection.
That was an interesting fact about penicillin...thanks for sharing it, Christine.
My hubby is diabetic also...but he doesn't like chocolate bars and hates coconut...can you imagine that...I can't :} My favorite candy bar was the Mounds Bar...but I don't eat candy anymore~
Hugs
One of those inventions that we can all be thankful for. Dark chocolate takes time to get used to.
Where would we be without the discovery of penicillin ...
We eat the dark chocolate 70% or above. Just a square with a cup of coffee can be very enjoyable ... and it does not raise husband Eddie's blood sugars - he is a type 2 diabetic.
All the best Jan
Some of the no sugar added chocolates taste better than others. I love dark chocolate! Very interesting about penicillin. Thanks for the invite to Scribble Picnic, I love the art work you're doing for it. I'm not sure it fits into my schedule right now, I'm not good at working quickly...
Thank you so much for such interesting information.
Lots of drugs started off as one thing and then morphed over the years, and with different chemists working on the product. I'm thankful for all the research money that is going to develop new drugs.
Hello Christine, I've never tried Stevia or any of the products using it, but something with coconut might give that dark chocolate a nice alternative flavour.
Oh yes, the discovery of penicillin - how amazing it took that long, great post, thank you :D)
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