Crazy Facts About Food

Interesting and Crazy Facts About Countries

• A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.
• 1 apple ads 5 minutes to a person's life.
• Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.
• The first ring donuts were produced in 1847 by a 15 year old baker's apprentice, Hanson Gregory, who knocked the soggy center out of a fried doughnut.
• Coca-cola (or any other cola soda) is good for cleaning the poles on car batteries.
• Twinkies have a shelf life of 100 years.
• There are more than 1,00 chemicals in a cup of coffee.
• The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
• Cacao, the main ingredient of chocolate is the most pest-ridden tree in the jungle.
• You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
• Goldfish swallowing started at Harvard in 1939.
• The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.
• The typical American eats 263 eggs a year.
• America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.
• The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
• Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
• The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
• Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
• It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
• Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• Bubble gum contains rubber.
• Almonds are a member of the peach family.