Heavily sesame-flavored tahini halva is very popular in Israel and among people of jewish background all over the world. It usually comes in slabs or small packages and is available in a wide variety of flavors, chocolate and vanilla being very common. The halva is almost always parve, meaning it does not contain any meat or dairy ingredients ensuring it can be eaten with after either milk or meat dishes according to the laws of Kashrut. Israeli halva will usually not contain wheat flour or semolina, but will contain sesame tahini, glucose, sugar, vanilla and saponaria root extracts (soapwort), which are not usually found in other recipes. It is often served as a breakfast component at Israeli hotels, though it is not usually part of an Israeli breakfast, and it is even used in specialty ice-cream.