Turkish delight or lokum is a family of confections based on a gel of starch and sugar. Traditional varieties are often flavoured with rosewater, vanilla, pomegranate, orange and lemon. The confection is often packaged and eaten in small cubes dusted with icing sugar, or coconut. Other common flavours include almond and pistachios.

The origin of the confection is known to have been produced in Turkey as early as the late 18th century.

Like the famous Turkish saying goes, “Let’s eat sweet, talk sweet”