内容摘要：But Mr Pentikainen suggests it could make Finland's start-up ecosystem less competitive for international founders.

But Mr Pentikainen suggests it could make Finland's start-up ecosystem less competitive for international founders.

When I try them, the flavour is overwhelmingly dominated by the salty peanut at the egg's core. But the chocolatey texture of the coating is impressive. The same applies to ChoViva-covered biscuits made by the firm.I note that the chocolate-like coating is rather thin and not overly flavourful. But again, the texture is pretty much what you'd expect from real chocolate, though not quite as melty.

The company's ChoViva-covered popcorn is probably the most chocolatey item I try – the popcorn doesn't usurp its coating.Overall, there's nothing here that would perturb a consumer. Especially one unaware that these products don't actually contain chocolate.A UK start-up also keen to compete in this space is Nukoko. Two of its founders previously ran a real chocolate business and teamed up with a food scientist to form their new venture.

"We saw first-hand the issues with the chocolate supply chain," says Ross Newton, co-founder. Like Foreverland and Planet A Foods, Nukoko has opted for a key ingredient that the firm can source and process locally – to reduce food miles and insulate against supply chain risks. But in Nukoko's case the raw material of choice is not carob or sunflower seeds but fava beans."There's around a million tonnes harvested in the UK every year," says Mr Newton.

It's early days for the company but he adds that he hopes to begin selling their cocoa powder alternative to food firms later this year.

Mr Newton says imitating the flavour of real chocolate is very hard but that, out of 25 crucial flavour compounds in real chocolate, his company's product manages to include 24 of them – though in some cases at slightly different concentrations.US President Donald Trump said on Friday that "a lot of people were starving" in Gaza. The Israeli government has repeatedly rejected claims there is a food shortage in Gaza.

Victoria Rose, a British reconstructive surgeon working at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that her team were "exhausted" and staff had lost a "considerable amount of weight"."The children are really thin," she said. "We've got a lot of youngsters whose teeth have fallen out.

"A lot of them have quite significant burn injuries and with this level of malnutrition they're so much more prone to infection and they've got so much less capacity to heal."Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had said on 5 May that Israel was preparing an "