The History of Hazelnuts — The Nut Behind Nutella's Dark Secret

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From sacred Celtic wisdom and Stone Age roasting pits to wartime Italy and modern child labor investigations, the humble hazelnut has one of the strangest journeys in food history.

In this episode, Crumb Lore traces how hazelnuts went from one of humanity’s oldest wild foods to the backbone of a global confectionery empire. Ferrero now controls an enormous share of the world’s hazelnut market, and the story behind Nutella leads straight to the steep hills of Turkey, where the majority of the world’s hazelnuts are harvested under conditions that have drawn international scrutiny.

Inside this video:
🌰 Mesolithic hazelnut harvesting in ancient Scotland
📜 Hazelnuts in Chinese, Celtic, Greek, and Roman history
🍫 How Napoleon’s blockade helped create gianduja
🏭 The wartime invention that became Nutella
🇹🇷 Why Turkey dominates the global hazelnut supply
⚠️ The labor system behind the modern harvest
👀 How one breakfast spread became tied to a vast, opaque supply chain


By https://www.youtube.com/@crumb.lore-yt