Who doesn’t love food. I will admit, I probably love food way more than I should. But once I saw this list, I think my love for food is starting to disappear.
1. Most carrots used to be purple until they were selectively bred into their modern orange color
2. Baby carrots are actually cut out of regular size carrots that were too lumpy and ugly to be sold in stores
3. Most wasabi that you buy in a store or eat at a restaurant is actually colored horseradish. Real wasabi is extremely expensive to cultivate
4. McDonald’s sells 75 hamburgers every second of every day
5. Coconut water can be used as blood plasma
6. Peanuts aren’t nuts, they’re legumes
7. Popsicles were invented by an 11-year-old in 1905
8. One of the most hydrating foods to eat is the cucumber, which is 96% water
9. There are 7,500 different kinds of apples grown on Earth
10.If you were try a new variety every day it would take you 20 years to try them all
11. Nearly 70% of olive oils aren’t really olive oils, even the really expensive brands.
12. Apparently the Italian mob has been making money off of selling the world fake olive oil for so long that professional testers don’t even know what real olive oil tastes like
13. In fact, the sale of fake olive oil has been quoted by EU anti-fraud experts as “comparable to cocaine trafficking, with none of the risks,”
14. Milk, orange juice, and coffee are other popular staples that are also likely to be fake, or at least not contain what they claim to contain
15.One of the most popular pizza toppings in Brazil is green peas
16. In the UK, potato chips are one of the few foods that are actually taxed. For this reason Proctor and Gamble tried to claim that Pringle’s aren’t potato chips…they’re just savory snacks
17. The court disagreed and Pringle’s are legally potato chips
18. Chocolate was once used as currency
19. The softening agent L-cysteine, which is used in some bread, is made out of duck feathers and human hair
20. Castoreum, which is used as vanilla flavoring in numerous candies and bakery items, is actually a secretion from the anal glands of beavers
21. Ketchup was used as a medicine in the 1800s to treat diarrhea
22. When taken in large doses nutmeg works as a hallucinogen
23. Fruit-flavored snacks are made with the same wax used on cars
24. Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
25. Tokyo features an amusement park that offers Horse Flesh-flavored ice cream
Some of them weren’t too surprising, but some of them were down right disgusting. Who would honestly try that ice cream? Or what about chocolate as a currency… yummy. I would be poor.