Here are some of the funniest and amazing facts about food. Read them and enjoy.
100 pounds of rain water is required to produce a single pound
of food from earth.
ü 11.9 pounds of cereal are consumed by average American / Canadian
per year
ü Do you know that we get only one pound of coffee from one
coffee tree?
ü The fear vegetables is called as Lachanophobia
ü Do you know that the French fries came from Belgium, but they
are most popular in USA
ü The number one selling snack in USA is the Potato chips
ü Do you know that Russian children are given a birthday pie
instead of birth day cake?
ü There are 500 different types of bananas. So if you start
eating one type of banana each day, it would take one and half year to eat
every kind of banana
ü Banana is normally treated as a tree, but it is not a tree
but a herb. That means it does not have a woody trunk like a tree. The
stalk contains leaf sheaths that overlap each other and grow from underground
stem called rhizome.
ü The banana plant can grow as high as 20 feet tall.
ü The Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza every day
which means 350 slices per second. Nearly 3 billion pizzas are sold in
USA each year.
ü Tomatoes were originally treated to be poisonous.
ü During your life time, you will eat around 60,000 pounds
of food. This is equal to weight of 6 elephants.
ü Strawberries have more Vitamin C than Oranges.
ü Coca Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer
space
ü Do you know that grapes explode when you put them in microwave?
ü The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
ü An average French citizen eats 500 snails per year
ü Watermelons can cost upto $100 in Japan!
ü An egg will float in water in which sugar is added
ü The amount of wine that was destroyed in the 1906 San Franscisco
earthquake was 15 million gallons.
ü There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.
ü Carrot was purple in color in earlier days, it was not
orange color
ü Do you know that smokers eat more sugar than non smokers?
ü Food gets into your stomach even if you are standing on your
head.
ü Do you know that a pound of potato chips cost around 200 times
more than a pound of potatoes?
ü One interesting fact about coconuts - Coconuts kill more
people in this world than sharks do; Nearly 150 people are killed by coconuts
each year.
ü In ancient China, people used to commit suicide by
eating a pound of salt.
ü Do you know that dry swallowing one teaspoon of sugar will
cure hic-ups?
ü A recent study at Harward shows that eating chocolate will
help you to live longer
ü Do you know that Carrots have zero fat content?
ü All the coffee in this world is grown within 1000 miles of the
equator.
ü Do you know that chocolates can kill dogs? It directly
affects their heart and nervous system
ü Goat's milk is widely used in the world than cow's milk
ü Butter milk does not contain any butter
ü Rice is the main food for half of the world population
ü Each pine apple plant produces only one pine apple per year!
ü Apples are a part of rose family
ü Pearls melt in vinegar
ü The onions have no flavour but only smell
ü The largest food item on a menu is a roast camel
ü A cluster of bananas is called a 'Hand'. And a single
banana is called as 'Finger'
ü When Cranberries are ripe, they bounce like a rubber ball
ü Americans consume 16 billion jelly beans at Easter. if all
these jelly beans were lined end to end, they would circle the globe three
times
ü Apples are 25% air
ü The apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping
people awake in mornings
ü Do you know that food can be tasted only if it is mixed with
saliva?
ü Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
ü The biggest mushroom is in Oregon which is more than 2400
years old, and covers 3.4 square miles of area and it is still growing!!
ü The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of
its main ingredients
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