Did you know about Food

• Did you know unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it
• Did you know lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
• Did you know rabbits like licorice
• Did you know reindeer like bananas
• Did you know Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year
• Did you know macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs
• Did you know honey is the only natural food which never spoils
• Did you know M&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie
• Did you know that you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become)
• Did you know Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine
• Did you know the fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco
• Did you know the first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954
• Did you know the croissant was invented in Austria
• Did you know In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas
• Did you know pop corn was invented by the Aztec Indians
• Did you know french fries are originally from Belgium
• Did you know apples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee
• Did you know grapes explode when you put them in the microwave
• Did you know rice is the staple food for 50% of the worlds population
• Did you know a hard boiled eggs spin (uncooked or soft boiled don`t)
• Did you know there is no butter in buttermilk
• Did you know almonds are members of the peach family
• Did you know an egg contains every vitamin except vitamin C
• Did you know Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year
• Did you know more people die from falling coconuts then from shark attacks
• Did you know Americas top selling ice cream flavour is vanilla
• Did you know the oldest known vegetable is the pea
• Did you know the average hen lays 228 eggs a year
• Did you know carrots contain 0% fat
• Did you know 1 billion snails are served in restaurants each year
• Did you know that in developed countries 27% of food is thrown away
• Did you know a banana contains 75% water
• Did you know cucumbers are 96% water.
• Did you know every day 7% of the US eats at McDonalds
• Did you know bananas grow pointing upwards.
• Did you know tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food
• Did you know Brazil got its name from the Brazilian nut (not the other way around)
• Did you know the largest exporter of sugar is Cuba
• Did you know flamingos can only eat when their heada are upside down
• Did you know turnips turn green when sunburnt
• Did you know americans spend $10 million a day on potato chips
• Did you know the average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 liters (12,000 gallons) of water in their lifetime
• Did you know most of the Vitamin C found in fruits is in the skin
• Did you know you can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets)
• Did you know avocados have the most calories of any other fruit
• Did you know American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year
• Did you know Japan is the largest exporter of frog legs
• Did you know the shell is 12% of an eggs weight
• Did you know the average American eats 263 eggs a year
• Did you know there is no rice in rice paper
• Did you know a blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating
• Did you know only 4 out of 20,000 species of bees produce honey
• Did you know the most eaten fruit in America is the banana
• Did you know the ancient Greeks first grew carrots as a form of medicine and not a food
• Did you know over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii
• Did you know the frozen foods were first introduced in the 1920.
• Did you know the color of a chile pepper is no indication of its heat (usually the smaller the the hotter)
• Did you know John Kellogg invented corn flakes
• Did you know there are over 15,000 different kinds of rice
• Did you know honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten
• Did you know 22% of people skip lunch daily
• Did you know the average person swallows 295 times during a meal
• Did you know the most popular snack food is potato chips
• Did you know on average 22% of all restaurant meals include potato chips
• Did you know 9% of people skip breakfast daily
• Did you know chocolate manufacturers use 40% of the world's almonds
• Did you know per person France consumes the most cheese
• Did you know it takes 1 week to make a jelly bean
• Did you know there are over 2,500 different types of mushrooms
• Did you know there are over 7,000 different types of apples
• Did you know thin skinned lemons are the juiciest
• Did you know on the average there are 8 peas in a pod
• Did you know you have to eat 5kg (11lb) of potatoes to put on .5kg (1lb) of weight (a potato has no more calories than an apple)
• Did you know a connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers
• Did you know the ice cream cone was introduced in 1904
• Did you know chocolate is the number 1 food craved by women
• Did you know Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year
• Did you know chicken drumsticks contain the least amount of meat on a chicken
• Did you know cooking or freezing does not reduce the heat (spiciness) of a chile pepper
• Did you know arachibutyrophobia is fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
• Did you know dark green lettuce leaves are more nutritious than lighter ones
• Did you know the average person consumes over a ton of food and drink each year
• Did you know cabbage is 91% water
• Did you know the most valuable nutrients of a potato are its skin
• Did you know fresh apples float because they contain 25% air
• Did you know lettuce is the worlds most popular green vegitable
• Did you know the average Americans diet consists of 55% junk food
• Did you know Canada has more doughnut shops per capita than any other country
• Did you know before beginning his movie career Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto Canada
• Did you know 80% of the world's food crops are pollinated by insects
• Did you know 10% of with world's food supply is consumed by insects
• Did you know onions are part of the lily family
• Did you know the primary reason for growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings (rice can grow in well drained areas)
• Did you know 2/3 of the world's eggplants are grown in the US New Jersey
• Did you know bananas are a good source of vitamin C, potassium and fiber
• Did you know bananas contain no fat, cholesterol or sodium
• Did you know over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once a month
• Did you know John Cadbury founded the Cadbury chocolate company in England in 1842 producing the first chocolate bars
• Did you know Franklin Mars invented the Snickers Bar in 1930
• Did you know 1 plain milk chocolate bar has more protein than a banana
• Did you know there are around 30 milligrams of caffeine in the average chocolate bar while a cup of coffee has around 100 to 150
• Did you know the hamburger was invented in 1900
• Did you know the hottest chile in the world is the habanero
• Did you know wheat is the world's most widely grown plant
• Did you know Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats
• Did you know after bananas a zoo gorilla's favorite food is celery
• Did you know the African Rock Python can survive 2 years without eating
• Did you know over 550 hot dogs are eaten every second in the United States
• Did you know instant mashed potatoes (dehydrated potato flakes) were invented in Canadian in 1962
• Did you know in American supermarkets peanut butter is one of the most frequently purchased items
• Did you know ostrich meat is the leanest of all red meats
• Did you know banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall
• Did you know blueberries are very high in antioxidants
• Did you know the grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine
• Did you know a pumpkin really is a fruit
• Did you know the bigger the orange the sweeter sweeter it is
• Did you know the world's most expensive spice is saffron
• Did you know after you have eaten it takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest
• Did you know $30 of raw popcorn translates into $3,000 in sales at movie theaters

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