Food is a substance, which we consume to gain nutrition and support life. Food can be vegetarian or non-vegetarian. You can say pizza is one of the most popular food in the world. Let's read some interesting food facts.
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103 Interesting Food Facts
- Carrot contains 0% fat.
- A banana contains 75% water.
- The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
- Bird's saliva is actually an expensive delicacy. It is a delicacy in China.
- Green, Yellow and Red bell peppers are actually not the same vegetable.
- A typical ear of corn has an even number of rows.
- The largest exporter of sugar is cube.
- An egg contains every vitamin except vitamin C.
- Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.
- Most supermarket wasabi is actually horseradish.
- One fast burger can have meat from 100 different cows.
- The most stolen food in the World is Cheese.
- Ketchup used to be used as a medicine.
- There is no butter in buttermilk.
- Unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it.
- White chocolate isn't actually chocolate.
- Chewing coffee beans can help eliminate bad breadth.
- Honey is the only natural food which never spoils.
- Grapes explode when you put then in microwave.
- Chocolate is as healthy as fruit.
- American cheese is not American.
- Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren't.
- Ripe cranberries will bounce like rubber balls.
- Fruit Stickers are edible.
- One in Four hazelnut end up in Nutella.
- Thin skinned lemons are juiciest.
- Chocolate used to be used as currency in ancient civilizations of Mexico and South America.
- Healthy food costs 10 times as much as junk food.
- Farm raised salmon is naturally white and then dyed pink.
- The ice cream cone was discovered in 1904.
- 9% of people skip breakfast daily.
- You can't overcook Mushrooms.
- Expiration dates on bottles have nothing to do with the water.
- Potatoes can absorb and reflect WiFi signals.
- Consuming dairy may cause acne.
- Apples belong to the rose family, as do pears and plums.
- Before being domesticated, chicken only produced about a dozen eggs a year. now they can produce hundreds.
- Honey is bee vomit.
- In japan, chefs have to train over 2 years in order to qualify to serve puffer-fish.
- Some foods like ranch dressing or coffee creamer, can contain titanium dioxide, which can also be found in paint, plastic and sunscreen.
- You can hear Rhubarb Grow.
- Loud music makes you drink more and faster!
- French fries originated in Belgium, not France.
- Lemons contain more sugar then strawberries.
- Eating celery will burn more calorie in your body than celery has itself. The more you eat celery, the thinner you will become.
- Without flies, there would be no chocolate.
- If improperly prepared, puffer fish, can kill you since it contains a toxin 1,200 times deadlier than cyanide.
- Pineapples have no relation to pine.
- Carrots were originally purple.
- Sweet drinks can cause dementia.
- Milt, which is a delicacy around the world, is sperm fish.
- Bad eggs will float when put in a glass of cold water while the fresher eggs will fall to the bottom.
- People once thought tomatoes were poisonous.
- Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food.
- Rice is the staple food for the 50% of the world population.
- Crackers will give you cavities faster than candy.
- Popsicle's were invented by mistake by an 11-year-old.
- A pomegranate can actually have any number of seeds.
- One of the most hydrating foods to eat is the cucumber, which is 96% water.
- Mountain dew contains orange juice.
- Eating too much of Nutmeg has effect of a hallucinogenic drug.
- More people in the world die from falling coconuts then from shark attacks.
- The frozen foods were first introduced in 1920.
- Turnips turn green when sun burnt.
- Japan is the largest exporter of frog legs.
- A blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating.
- Food tastes different when you're flying.
- There's wood pulp in shredded cheese.
- Honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten.
- The most eaten fruit in America is Banana.
- Human DNA is 60% the same as bananas.
- The most popular snack food is potato chips.
- Dark green lettuce leaves are more nutritious than lighter ones.
- India produces, consumes and exports the most chili peppers in the world.
- Pound cake is called the pound cake because there was a pound of every ingredient in the original recipe.
- Some apples bought in the super market can be over a year old. They are still fresh because they were held in cold storage.
- Turkey consumes the most tea per person.
- The Netherlands (Holland) drinks the most coffee per person.
- Potatoes were the first vegetables ever planted in space.
- Lettuce is the world's most popular green vegetable.
- 10% of the world's food supply is consumed by insects.
- Figs are made by fig wasps which mate inside the fig, leaving it to blossom.
- German chocolate cake has nothing to do with chocolate.
- Canned white tuna has 3 times more mercury than chunk white.
- Once lobster were served as prison food and regarded as the food for the poor since they were so plentiful.
- Ostrich meat is the leanest of all the red meat.
- The bigger the orange the sweeter it is.
- Eating kiwi helps your body process protein.
- There's small difference between jam and jelly. Jam is made from fruit and jelly is made from fruit juice.
- Eggplants aren't vegetables; they're actually berries.
- Once you eat food, it takes 12 hours for the food to entirely digest.
- In an emergency, coconut water can be used for blood plasma.
- If you have latex allergy, you are likely allergic to papaya.
- Goat meat is the most popular meat.
- Greek Yogurt has double the amount of protein as its regular counterpart.
- Wheat is the world's most widely grown plant.
- Oatmeal is commonly used as a stabilizer in food items such as ice cream.
- The hamburger was invented in 1900.
- Astronauts ate food grown in space for the first time in 2015.
- There are more Indian restaurants in London than in Mumbai or Delhi.
- Not eating food before going to bed actually burns fat.
- The world's most expensive spice is saffron.
- There are over 15,000 different kinds of rice.
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