Food Facts

This array of facts are concerned with trivial and not-so-trivial information about food. Learn and share amazing food facts!

• Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

• Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside.

• Fast food restaurants use yellow, red, and orange because those are the colors that stimulate hunger.
  

  During an average person’s life, they will consume about 60,000 pounds of food.

• There are over 1,000 different kinds of apples.

• There are over 400 varieties of natural cheeses.

• Popcorn has existed for about 6000 years.

• Pumpkins are not a vegetable but rather a fruit, just like tomatoes.

• One of the most hydrating foods to eat is the cucumber, which is 96% water.

• It takes 12 honeybees to produce one tablespoon of honey.

• The first carrots grown were purple- in the 17^th century orange ones began to be the ones grown.

• The popsicle was invented by an 11-year-old in 1905.

• The most expensive pizza in the world costs $12,000 and takes 72 hours to make.

• Chocolate was once used as currency.

• Coconut water can be used as blood plasma.

• McDonald’s sells 75 hamburgers every second of every day.

• One fast food hamburger may contain meat from 100 different cows.

• Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same thing.

• Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

• The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!

• Coca-cola was originally green. That is an amazing food fact, no?

• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.