Food is essential to life.

Here is a variety of fun, odd, and amusing facts about food, cooking, eating and consumption in general.

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Do YOU know as much as you think about the foods that you eat?!? …

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40 Facts About Food

Common bananas are actually all genetically identical… they come from banana trees that have been cloned for decades.
The first food product to ever use a bar-code was a pack of wrigley’s gum.
The name “German Chocolate Cake” does not have any origins in Germany… it derives from the name of it’s creator, Sam German.
If you dropped a strand of your pearls in vinegar… they would melt.
Peanuts are actually an… ingredient in dynamite.
When food is cooked with wine, there is no alcohol left after… the alcohol evaporates at 172 degrees Fahrenheit.
In ancient Egypt, when taking an oath, an Egyptian placed his right hand on an onion.
Cheerios is usually among the top selling cereals in America.
The letter ‘M’ in “M&M’s” actually stands for the names of the co-creators of the candy… Murrie & Mars.
Pineapples are actually classified as berries.
Honey… is actually a combination of nectar and bee vomit.
In the 1800’s, ketchup was not used as a condiment… but it was common to use ketchup to treat diarrhea.
Milk is technically considered a food and not a beverage.
When cooking most microwave popcorn products…. the product gives off a toxic, lung-damaging gas.
On each side of an Oreo cookie, there are 12 stamped flowers.
Inside a peach pit is an almond-like nut… this nut has a potent anti-cancer medicine ingredient called laetrile.
The name “Pound Cake” gets it’s name from the 1st recipe for the sweet treat which called for a “pound” each of butter, sugar, eggs and flour.
When crackers have little holes in them… this is so that steam can escape during baking, makes for a crispier cracker.
The cashew nut in its natural state contains poisonous oil.
Macadamia Nuts are toxic to dogs.
President Richard Nixon banned soup at State dinners.
Chicken soup was used as an… aphrodisiac in the middle ages.
Botanically speaking… a banana is a herb and a tomato is a fruit.
The first popsicle was actually created by accident in 1905… when someone left a sweet drink and stirring stick overnight outside and it froze.
Beer is technically made by fermentation caused by bacteria which then feeds on yeast cells and then defecates.
SPAM stands for… Shoulder Pork & Ham.
Grape growing is the largest food industry… in the world.
Carrots have 0 fat content.
Reportedly, there are 1,750+… “O’s” in a 15-ounce can of Spaghetti Os.
Is a cranberry is ripe… it will bounce like a rubber ball.
Yoo-hoo contains more water than chocolate milk.
Apples float in water because they are 25% air.
The “Chinese gooseberry” wasn’t a name desired by marketers of the exotic fruit… so they renamed it “Kiwi” after a bird that it looks similar too.
There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.
The quote “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” comes from Benjamin Franklin.
Coconut water has actually been used as blood plasma.
More than 7,000 + varieties of apples exist in the world today.
It Takes 3500 Calories To Make A Pound Of Fat.
Strawberries are not berries at all. They are actually an enlarged receptacle of a flower.
Beef jerky is more expensive because beef is bought by the pound… and when smoked, the jerky loses 3/4ths of that weight.

Food is essential to life.

Here is a variety of fun, odd, and amusing facts about food, cooking, eating and consumption in general.

Do YOU know as much as you think about the foods that you eat?!? …

Let’s see.

40 Facts About Food

Common bananas are actually all genetically identical… they come from banana trees that have been cloned for decades.

The first food product to ever use a bar-code was a pack of wrigley’s gum.

The name “German Chocolate Cake” does not have any origins in Germany… it derives from the name of it’s creator, Sam German.

If you dropped a strand of your pearls in vinegar… they would melt.

Peanuts are actually an… ingredient in dynamite.

When food is cooked with wine, there is no alcohol left after… the alcohol evaporates at 172 degrees Fahrenheit.

In ancient Egypt, when taking an oath, an Egyptian placed his right hand on an onion.

Cheerios is usually among the top selling cereals in America.

The letter ‘M’ in “M&M’s” actually stands for the names of the co-creators of the candy… Murrie & Mars.

Pineapples are actually classified as berries.

Honey… is actually a combination of nectar and bee vomit.

In the 1800’s, ketchup was not used as a condiment… but it was common to use ketchup to treat diarrhea.

Milk is technically considered a food and not a beverage.

When cooking most microwave popcorn products…. the product gives off a toxic, lung-damaging gas.

On each side of an Oreo cookie, there are 12 stamped flowers.

Inside a peach pit is an almond-like nut… this nut has a potent anti-cancer medicine ingredient called laetrile.

The name “Pound Cake” gets it’s name from the 1st recipe for the sweet treat which called for a “pound” each of butter, sugar, eggs and flour.

When crackers have little holes in them… this is so that steam can escape during baking, makes for a crispier cracker.

The cashew nut in its natural state contains poisonous oil.

Macadamia Nuts are toxic to dogs.

President Richard Nixon banned soup at State dinners.

Chicken soup was used as an… aphrodisiac in the middle ages.

Botanically speaking… a banana is a herb and a tomato is a fruit.

The first popsicle was actually created by accident in 1905… when someone left a sweet drink and stirring stick overnight outside and it froze.

Beer is technically made by fermentation caused by bacteria which then feeds on yeast cells and then defecates.

SPAM stands for… Shoulder Pork & Ham.

Grape growing is the largest food industry… in the world.

Carrots have 0 fat content.

Reportedly, there are 1,750+… “O’s” in a 15-ounce can of Spaghetti Os.

Is a cranberry is ripe… it will bounce like a rubber ball.

Yoo-hoo contains more water than chocolate milk.

Apples float in water because they are 25% air.

The “Chinese gooseberry” wasn’t a name desired by marketers of the exotic fruit… so they renamed it “Kiwi” after a bird that it looks similar too.

There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.

The quote “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” comes from Benjamin Franklin.

Coconut water has actually been used as blood plasma.

More than 7,000 + varieties of apples exist in the world today.

It Takes 3500 Calories To Make A Pound Of Fat.

Strawberries are not berries at all. They are actually an enlarged receptacle of a flower.

Beef jerky is more expensive because beef is bought by the pound… and when smoked, the jerky loses 3/4ths of that weight.

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