Kuhbonbon Organic Soft Caramels
Animals have a taste in music, too. However, the taste in music in the animal kingdom is just as diverse as among humans. Dogs and cats prefer soft and harmonious sounds. Fast and hard rhythms put them under stress. With white sharks it is the other way around. When heavy metal or hard rock is played from the underwater speakers, they come together. Responsible for this is the lateral line organ of sharks which reacts especially to low frequencies like those coming from injured fish. The pulsating sound of heavy metal has a similarly low frequency. That's why white sharks are often attracted better by hard guitar riffs than by the usual baits. Animals on the farm, on the contrary, rather enjoy classic sounds. This is especially true for cows. In a large-scale experiment, psychologists from the University of Leicester in England let around 1,000 cows listen to music for half a day for nine weeks. With classical music and quiet soul ballads, milk production increased by an average of 3%. In contrast, there was less milk given with rock, folk and fast pop music being played.
The reaction to music shows how sensitive cows are. Calm and harmony are as important to the loyal and devoted animals as good relationships with their human companions. They often maintain lifelong friendships with peers of the same age within the herd. Also the mother-daughter relationship of cows is deeper than that of most other animals. Even after five years, a cow still feels strongly connected to her – meanwhile adult – calf. Similar to a pack of wolves, a herd of cattle also has alpha animals and complex social dynamics. Each cow knows its place in the herd and can distinguish over 100 different herd members. The position of a cow in a free herd is determined by its age, height, weight or horn. For a harmonious hierarchy the herd must not be too big. Researchers have observed that if the herd is larger than 200 cows, the animals are constantly fighting for dominance. This can be very stressful for cows, because their social relationships shape their everyday life in many areas. When the herd lies down for a nap, for example, the cows do not just sleep anywhere. The arrangement and distance of the sleeping places are determined by the status within the herd as well.
Cows feel most comfortable in manageable herds on large pastures. Here they can doze comfortably, graze and, above all, ruminate. Since grass is hard to digest and has to be chewed more than once, cows have four stomachs: rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. The stomach system of a cow is very complex. Eaten grass must first be fermented. The liquefied food components then go through the digestive tract. Larger pieces and plant fibers are pushed up and are chewed again. The process of ruminating allows the cow to produce nutrient-rich milk even from less nutritious food such as grass or hay.
Last year, Germans on average drank almost 50 liters of milk per capita. In addition, butter and cheese were eaten. For the production of sweets, milk often plays a major role, too. It provides the desired creaminess in ice cream and milk chocolate. And many classic candies and soft caramels owe their typical taste to milk. Milk, butter and sugar have long been the three main ingredients of classic caramel candy.
If you love traditional soft caramel, you should definitely try the Kuhbonbon Organic Soft Caramels. The Kuhbonbon Organic Soft Caramels Classic are made with a lot of good milk and butter from certified organic farming. The candy owes its sweetness to best organic brown cane sugar, organic rice syrup and organic coconut blossom sugar. The Kuhbonbon Organic Soft Caramels Double Choc combine caramel sweets with cocoa nibs – fragments of the actual cocoa bean – for an extra chocolate kick. With the Kuhbonbon Organic Soft Caramels, you can enjoy candy like in grandmothers' times.
