- Almonds are a member of the peach family.

- Americans eat approximately 10kg of tomatoes yearly, over half of which is in the form of catsup and tomato sauce.

- Apple is made of 25% air, that is why they float.

- Apples, onions, and potatoes all have the same taste?
Try the test: Pinch your nose and take a bite out of each.

- Avocado has the highest protein and oil content of all fruits,
but most of this is the healthier unsaturated type.

- Barbecue comes from barbacoa, a Caribbean "rude framework for sleeping or drying meat over a fire".

- Beer drunk with dinner works better than drinking red wine, gin or sparkling mineral water
in controlling homocysteine, a blood factor that promotes heart disease by boosting blood levels of vitamin B6.

- Beer is a popular ingredient in batter for deep fried foods
since the protein in beer provides browning and produces a light, crisp, dry batter when cooked.

- Black-eyed peas are really beans.

- Blenders were invented by Stephen Poplawski when in 1922
he became the first person to put a spinning blade at the bottom of a small electric appliance
to make Horlick's malted milk shakes.

- Brown sugar is either an unrefined or partially refined soft sugar with some
residual molasses or produced by the addition of molasses to refined white sugar.

- Butter and margarine are similar in calories, the difference is that butter is higher in saturated fats,while margarine generally has more unsaturated fats.

- Canola is derived from "Canadian oil, low acid".

- Cabbage is 91% water.

- Capers are the unopened green flower buds of a wild and cultivated bush
which is related to the cabbage family.

- Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth,
is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk.

- Chocolate bloom occurs when the cocoa butter has separated causing it to
rise to the surface of the chocolate and is a result of the
chocolate being stored in too humid or too warm a temperature.

- Chocolate is a particularly good source of magnesium, potassium and calcium.
It also has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
On the down side it contains caffeine and has a high fat level.

- Chocolate may have its romantic effect due to the effects on the brain of a naturally occurring substance called phenylethylamine which enhances endorphin levels, increase libido and act a natural antidepressant.

- Doughnuts were orginally made of raised dough with a nut in the centre.

-Eggs contain most of the recognised vitamins with the exception of vitamin C.

- Eggplants are actually fruits, and classified botanically as berries.

- Fish consumption may be more than brain food but also help protect your eyes
from age-related macular degeneration, a potential cause of blindness.

- Fortune cookies are not Chinese, they were invented in Los Angeles around 1920.

- Gelato comes from the Italian word gelare which means to freeze;
it is made from cow milk and its rich taste comes from being denser (30% air whereas ice cream is around 50%).

- Guinness beer, after pouring, produces bubbles that sink to the bottom.
The bubbles go up more easily in the centre of the beer glass than on the sides because of drag from the walls.
As the bubbles go up, they raise the beer, and the beer has to spill back,
and it does. It runs down the sides of the glass carrying the bubbles - particularly little bubbles with it,downward to the bottom of the glass

- Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak,
more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.

- Honey is the only edible food for humans that will never go bad.

- Horseradish was the first product sold by Heinz in 1869.

- Humble pie comes from the food "umble pie",
a pie consisting of the innards of deer, which very poor people in Medieval England ate.

- Lobster was so common in Maine in the 18th Century that it was used as fertiliser.

- Margarine was first called Butterine in England when it was introduced.

- Mayonnaise will kill lice and also condition your hair.

- Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

- Milk from reindeer has more fat than cow milk.

- Milk is the new diet drink since low-fat, high-calcium dairy foods
may burn off fat since extra calcium increases metabolism.

- Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

- Olive oil has lots of anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatory activity to fight rheumatoid arthritis.Olive oil is an oil extracted from the fruit of the olive tree.
Olive oil is the only vegetable oil that can be created simply by pressing the raw material.

- Orange does not rhyme with any other word.

- Organ meats were known as garbage in the 16^th Century, the term then used for the innards of an animal.

- Parmigiano is a natural source of and has a high concentration of Monosodium glutamate (MSG),
giving it the unami taste, found as small white crystals formed during maturation.

- Peanuts are legumes and not a tree nut.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

- Pear is a fruit that ripens from the inside out.

- Pepsi-Cola was invented by Caleb Bradham in 1898. Originally called "Brad's Drink,
" the beverage was first marketed as a digestive aid and energy booster.
It was renamed Pepsi-Cola because of its pepsin and kola nut content.

- Pizza originated in the early 1700's in Naples, Italy.

- Pizza toppings of squid are the most popular variety in Japan.

- Popsicle were invented by an 11 year old,
Frank Epperson when he left his soda water drink with a stirring stick overnight on his porch.

- Pound cake was so named because of its original proportions of 1 lb (500g) each of butter, sugar, and flour.

- Puffed grain were invented by Alexander Anderson in 1902.
Unlike popcorn, a type of corn that naturally pops or puffs up with heat,
puffed cereal or snacks are formed by exploding whole grain kernels under high pressure and steam.

- Raisin in a glass of champagne will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

- 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 paper does not contain one grain of rice - its made from either Rice straw, Bamboo, Hemp, Mulberry leaves, Wingceltis or Gampi.

- Soup has its origin as a word from 'sop' or 'sup', meaning the slice of bread on which the broth was poured.

- Soy flour and soya flour are richer in calcium and iron than wheat flour,
gluten-free and high in protein. Soy flour is ground from raw soybeans;
soya flour from lightly toasted soybeans.

- Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America.

- Traditional italian food is an anagram of radiation, toil, fat and oil.

- TV dinners were introduced in 1954 by Omaha-based C.A. Swanson
and Sons featuring roast turkey with stuffing and gravy,
sweet potatoes and peas, selling for 98 cents.

- Vegemite is an Australian icon which was developed in 1922 by Dr. Cyril Callister.
He took used brewer's yeast and blended the yeast extract with ingredients like celery,
onion, salt, and a few secret ingredients to make this paste rich in B vitamins;
it was developed for the Fred Walker Company which is now Kraft Foods.

- White chocolate is not a true chocolate because it contains no chocolate liquor,
instead its made of sugar, cocoa butter, milk solids, lecithin and vanilla.

- White shelled eggs are produced by hens with white feathers and earlobes
while brown eggs are produced by hens with red feathers and earlobes;
the colour has no relationship to the nutritional quality or taste of the eggs.

- Wrigley's gum was the first product to have a bar code.

- Yelling for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days produces enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

---Janet's Food for thought ---

Disclaimer: I do not know whether the above facts are of how true....
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