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Some food facts that you must have never heard in ur whole life..Weird and wonderful facts
..............Interesting Food Facts...........
Food
Milk chocolate was invented by Daniel Peter, who sold the concept to his neighbour Henri Nestl.
An ounce of chocolate contains about 20 mg of caffeine.
Forks, mostly being two-tined, used to known as "split spoons."
TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."
The world's oldest existing eateries are the Stiftskeller St. Peter in Salzburg, Austria - which was started as a monestary and had a tavern for travellers by 803 AD - and an eatery which opened in Kai-Feng, China in 1153.
Coffee is the seed of a cherry from the tree genus Coffea
Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931).
Three quarters of fish caught are eaten - the rest is used to make things such as glue, soap, margarine and fertilizer.
The world's most expensive jam (jelly) is Confiture de groselles. It is a redcurrant jam (jelly) from a 14th century recipe made in the tiny French town of Bar-Le-Duc.
In September 1999 Dustin Philips of the US set a Guinness World Record by drinking a 400 ml (14-oz) bottle of tomato sauce through a straw in 33 seconds.
To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, traveling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
Botanically speaking, the banana is a herb and the tomato is a fruit.
Bananas are the world's most popular fruit after tomatoes. In western countries, they could account for 3% of a grocer's total sales.
Bananas consistently are the number one compliant of grocery shoppers. Most people complain when bananas are overripe or even freckled. The fact is that spotted bananas are sweeter, with a sugar content of more than 20%, compared with 3% in a green banana.
Approximately 44 million tons of bananas are produced annually, compared to more than 60 million tomatoes. Apples are the third most popular (36 million tons), then oranges (34 million tons) and watermelons (22 million tons).
The scientific term for the common tomato is lycopersicon lycopersicum, which means "wolf peach."
There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.
The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.
Over the last 40 years food production actually increased faster than population.
The number of people who starved to death in the last 25 years of the 20th century is less than the number who starved to death in the last 25 years of the 19th century.
In the Middle Ages, sugar was a treasured luxury costing 9 times as much as milk.
Of the more than $50 billion worth of diet products sold every year, almost $20 billion are spent on imitation fats and sugar substitutes.
Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.
In 1994, Chicago artist Dwight Kalb sent David Letterman a statue of Madonna, made of 180lb of ham.
Wine is sold in tinted bottles because wine spoils when exposed to light.
Approximately one billion snails are served in restaurants annually.
Vitamin A is known to prevent "night blindness," and carrots are loaded with Vitamin A. One carrot provides more than 200% of recommended daily intake of Vitamin A.
Carrots have zero fat content.
Maria Ann Smith introduced the Granny Smith apple in 1838.
Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
The first European to encounter tea was the Portuguese Jesuit Jasper de Cruz in 1560.
Ice tea was introduced in 1904 at the World's Fair in St. Louis.
The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
In the 1950's some 80% of chickens in Europe and the US were free-ranging. By 1980, it was only 1%. Today, about 13% of chickens in the West are free-ranging.
An onion, apple and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavour are caused by their smell.
Americans eat twice as much meat as Europeans, gobbling up some 50kg (110 lb) per capita.
Meat production causes 1/5 of global greenhouse gasses.
The tall chef's hat is called a toque.
The term "soda water" was coined in 1798.
The soda fountain was patented by Samuel Fahnestock in 1819, with the first bottled soda water available in 1835.
The first ice-cream soda was sold in 1874 in the US.
The first cola-flavoured beverage was introduced in 1881.
Coca-Cola was invented in Atlanta, Georgia by Dr. John S. Pemberton in 1886.
Pepsi-Cola was invented by Caleb Bradham in 1890 as "Brad's Drink" as a digestive aid and energy booster. In was renamed as Pepsi-Cola in 1898.
In 1929, the Howdy Company introduced its "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Sodas," which became 7 Up. 7 Up was invented by Charles Leiper Grigg.
The first diet soft drink, called the "No-Cal Beverage" was launched in 1952.
Aluminum cans were introduced in 1957 and two years later the first diet cola was sold.
The pull-ring tab was invented in 1962 and the re-sealable top in 1965.
Annually, France exports some 140 million bottles of champagne but keep 180 million bottles for local consumption.
Plastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970.
The Polyethylene Terephthalate bottle was introduced in 1973.
The stay-on tab was invented in 1974.
China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year. 25 million trees are chopped down to make 'em sticks.
Chocolate is the number one foodstuff flavour in the world, beating vanilla and banana by 3-to-1.
Watermelons are 97% water, lettuce 97%, tomatoes 95%, carrots 90%, and bread 30%
During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded gold for potatoes.
In 1995, KFC sold 11 pieces of chicken for every man, woman and child in the US.
Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.
Fortune cookies were invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodle maker.
In 1990, Bill Carson, of Arrington, Tennessee, grew the largest watermelon at 262 pounds.
In a true Chinese meal, the last course is soup because it allows the roast duck entree to "swim" toward digestion.
In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
Pine, spruce, or other evergreen wood should never be used in barbecues. These woods, when burning or smoking, can add harmful tar and resins to the food. Only hardwoods should be used for smoking and grilling, such as oak, pecan, hickory, maple, cherry, alder, apple, or mesquite, depending on the type of meat being cooked.
Refried beans aren't really what they seem. Although their name seems like a reasonable translation of Spanish frijoles refritos, the fact is that these beans aren't fried twice. In Spanish, refritos literally means "well-fried," not "re-fried."
Rice is the staple food of more than one-half of the world's population.
Saffron, made from the dried stamens of cultivated crocus flowers, is the most expensive cooking spice.
Since Hindus don't eat beef, the MacDonald's in New Delhi makes its burgers with mutton.
The colour of a chilli is no indication of its spiciness, but size usually is - the smaller the pepper, the hotter it is.
The difference between apple juice and apple cider is that the juice is pasteurized and the cider is not.
The dye used to stamp the grade on meat is edible. It's made from grape skins.
The fungus called truffles are sniffed out from the ground by female pigs, which detect a compound that is in the saliva of male pigs as well. The same chemical is found in the sweat of human males. One variety, Tuber melanosporum, can cost between $800 and $1,500 a pound.
The largest living organism ever found is a honey mushroom, Armillaria ostoyae. It covers 3.4 square miles of land in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, and it's still growing
The world's deadliest mushroom is the Amanita phalloides, the death cap. The five different poisons contained by the mushroom cause diarrhea and vomiting within 6 to 12 hours of ingestion. This is followed by damage to the liver, kidneys, and central nervous system - and, in the majority of cases, coma and death.
When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of 20 minutes.
When Swiss cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese leaving holes. Cheese-makers call them "eyes."
I hope u enjoyed it!
Bye..
,Mariha
Take Care IF's...Rocking memberz!
..............Interesting Food Facts...........
Food
Milk chocolate was invented by Daniel Peter, who sold the concept to his neighbour Henri Nestl.
An ounce of chocolate contains about 20 mg of caffeine.
Forks, mostly being two-tined, used to known as "split spoons."
TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."
The world's oldest existing eateries are the Stiftskeller St. Peter in Salzburg, Austria - which was started as a monestary and had a tavern for travellers by 803 AD - and an eatery which opened in Kai-Feng, China in 1153.
Coffee is the seed of a cherry from the tree genus Coffea
Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931).
Three quarters of fish caught are eaten - the rest is used to make things such as glue, soap, margarine and fertilizer.
The world's most expensive jam (jelly) is Confiture de groselles. It is a redcurrant jam (jelly) from a 14th century recipe made in the tiny French town of Bar-Le-Duc.
In September 1999 Dustin Philips of the US set a Guinness World Record by drinking a 400 ml (14-oz) bottle of tomato sauce through a straw in 33 seconds.
To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, traveling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
Botanically speaking, the banana is a herb and the tomato is a fruit.
Bananas are the world's most popular fruit after tomatoes. In western countries, they could account for 3% of a grocer's total sales.
Bananas consistently are the number one compliant of grocery shoppers. Most people complain when bananas are overripe or even freckled. The fact is that spotted bananas are sweeter, with a sugar content of more than 20%, compared with 3% in a green banana.
Approximately 44 million tons of bananas are produced annually, compared to more than 60 million tomatoes. Apples are the third most popular (36 million tons), then oranges (34 million tons) and watermelons (22 million tons).
The scientific term for the common tomato is lycopersicon lycopersicum, which means "wolf peach."
There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.
The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.
Over the last 40 years food production actually increased faster than population.
The number of people who starved to death in the last 25 years of the 20th century is less than the number who starved to death in the last 25 years of the 19th century.
In the Middle Ages, sugar was a treasured luxury costing 9 times as much as milk.
Of the more than $50 billion worth of diet products sold every year, almost $20 billion are spent on imitation fats and sugar substitutes.
Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.
In 1994, Chicago artist Dwight Kalb sent David Letterman a statue of Madonna, made of 180lb of ham.
Wine is sold in tinted bottles because wine spoils when exposed to light.
Approximately one billion snails are served in restaurants annually.
Vitamin A is known to prevent "night blindness," and carrots are loaded with Vitamin A. One carrot provides more than 200% of recommended daily intake of Vitamin A.
Carrots have zero fat content.
Maria Ann Smith introduced the Granny Smith apple in 1838.
Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
The first European to encounter tea was the Portuguese Jesuit Jasper de Cruz in 1560.
Ice tea was introduced in 1904 at the World's Fair in St. Louis.
The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
In the 1950's some 80% of chickens in Europe and the US were free-ranging. By 1980, it was only 1%. Today, about 13% of chickens in the West are free-ranging.
An onion, apple and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavour are caused by their smell.
Americans eat twice as much meat as Europeans, gobbling up some 50kg (110 lb) per capita.
Meat production causes 1/5 of global greenhouse gasses.
The tall chef's hat is called a toque.
The term "soda water" was coined in 1798.
The soda fountain was patented by Samuel Fahnestock in 1819, with the first bottled soda water available in 1835.
The first ice-cream soda was sold in 1874 in the US.
The first cola-flavoured beverage was introduced in 1881.
Coca-Cola was invented in Atlanta, Georgia by Dr. John S. Pemberton in 1886.
Pepsi-Cola was invented by Caleb Bradham in 1890 as "Brad's Drink" as a digestive aid and energy booster. In was renamed as Pepsi-Cola in 1898.
In 1929, the Howdy Company introduced its "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Sodas," which became 7 Up. 7 Up was invented by Charles Leiper Grigg.
The first diet soft drink, called the "No-Cal Beverage" was launched in 1952.
Aluminum cans were introduced in 1957 and two years later the first diet cola was sold.
The pull-ring tab was invented in 1962 and the re-sealable top in 1965.
Annually, France exports some 140 million bottles of champagne but keep 180 million bottles for local consumption. Plastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970. The Polyethylene Terephthalate bottle was introduced in 1973. The stay-on tab was invented in 1974. China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year. 25 million trees are chopped down to make 'em sticks. Chocolate is the number one foodstuff flavour in the world, beating vanilla and banana by 3-to-1. Watermelons are 97% water, lettuce 97%, tomatoes 95%, carrots 90%, and bread 30% During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded gold for potatoes. In 1995, KFC sold 11 pieces of chicken for every man, woman and child in the US. Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962. Fortune cookies were invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodle maker. In 1990, Bill Carson, of Arrington, Tennessee, grew the largest watermelon at 262 pounds. In a true Chinese meal, the last course is soup because it allows the roast duck entree to "swim" toward digestion. In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes. Pine, spruce, or other evergreen wood should never be used in barbecues. These woods, when burning or smoking, can add harmful tar and resins to the food. Only hardwoods should be used for smoking and grilling, such as oak, pecan, hickory, maple, cherry, alder, apple, or mesquite, depending on the type of meat being cooked. Refried beans aren't really what they seem. Although their name seems like a reasonable translation of Spanish frijoles refritos, the fact is that these beans aren't fried twice. In Spanish, refritos literally means "well-fried," not "re-fried." Rice is the staple food of more than one-half of the world's population. Saffron, made from the dried stamens of cultivated crocus flowers, is the most expensive cooking spice. Since Hindus don't eat beef, the MacDonald's in New Delhi makes its burgers with mutton. The colour of a chilli is no indication of its spiciness, but size usually is - the smaller the pepper, the hotter it is. The difference between apple juice and apple cider is that the juice is pasteurized and the cider is not. The dye used to stamp the grade on meat is edible. It's made from grape skins. The fungus called truffles are sniffed out from the ground by female pigs, which detect a compound that is in the saliva of male pigs as well. The same chemical is found in the sweat of human males. One variety, Tuber melanosporum, can cost between $800 and $1,500 a pound. The largest living organism ever found is a honey mushroom, Armillaria ostoyae. It covers 3.4 square miles of land in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, and it's still growing The world's deadliest mushroom is the Amanita phalloides, the death cap. The five different poisons contained by the mushroom cause diarrhea and vomiting within 6 to 12 hours of ingestion. This is followed by damage to the liver, kidneys, and central nervous system - and, in the majority of cases, coma and death. When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of 20 minutes. When Swiss cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese leaving holes. Cheese-makers call them "eyes."I hope u enjoyed it!
Bye..
,Mariha
Take Care IF's...Rocking memberz!
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