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Melta- coffee substitute kids can drink

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Melta is a very traditional coffee substitute. I used to drinking as a child with my brother mixed with milk or we broke our “rohlík” white bread roll into small pieces and put it into a cup with melta and eat. It’s  composition is a bit strange, but the following raw materials are ground: chicory root, sugar beet, barley and rye. For the human body, the true wonder is the chicory root. It hardly occurs in the diet and is difficult to come across. However, chicory root contains inulin, which is a helper in many difficulties associated with urinary tract inflammation, kidney stones, constipation or anorexia. The chicory is much older and better known than melta. It has been mentioned in Europe in the 17th century. It is produced only from roasted chicory root. Both beverages, or more precisely coffee powder, are available today. If you do not want to drink these drinks on the advice of doctors because of your health condition, at least taste it in the history and life of grandpar