Food and Drink Facts
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. Source
Plain grain products lower your IQ, while whole grain products increase your IQ.
Eating lemons make you live longer.
Broccoli is the food with the best anti-cancer properties.
Eating half an orange a day reduces your chances of getting a heart attack by 50%.
Eating one meal of fish a week reduces your chances of getting a heart attack by 50%.
Almonds are a member of the Rosaceae (Rose) family which includes peaches.
Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.
The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
Argentinians eat more meat than any other nation in the world.
In 1904, the ice cream cone was invented.
You'll drink 16,000 gallons in your life.
The first meal on the moon was roast turkey, eaten by Niel Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
Baskin Robbins once made ketchup-flavored ice cream.
Someone living in New York could eat out every night of their life and never eat at the same restaurant.
The Snickers bar is America's most popular candy bar.
Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year.
The Incas measured time by how long it took a potato to cook.
Apples ripen after being picked while oranges do not.
Broccoli was introduced into the U.S. in the 1920s.
Choking on food is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.
Potato chips are the biggest selling snack food in the U.S. and Canada.
A peanut is one of the most concentrated source of nourishment.
Half the people in the world will eat rice on any given day.
Alaskans eat twice as much ice cream per capita than the rest of the nation.
A typical banana travels 4,000 miles before being eaten.
There are 27 chemicals that can be added to bread without being listed on the label.
Coffee is the world's most recognizable smell.
Most ice cream is eaten between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m.
Half of all coffee drinkers drink it black.
It takes four tons of grapes to make one ton of raisins.
Apples are the most popular fruit in the U.S.
13 boxes of jello are sold every second.
A can of spam is opened every 4 seconds somewhere on Earth.
An average adult eats 2,000 pounds of food each year.
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