Interesting Facts about Food
December 17th 2009 23:44
There is so much to learn about the fuel we put in our bodies
Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries?
The onion is named after a Latin word meaning 'large pearl'.
There are about 100,000 bacteria in one litre of water! (They must be good bacteria though)
A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over (A good argument for recycling water).
Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Orange does not rhyme with any other word.
A raisin in a glass of champagne will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Honey is the only edible food for humans that will never go bad.
Kopi Luwa from Indonesia is the world's costliest coffee, at USD$700 a kilogram, thanks to a unique taste and aroma enhanced by the digestive system of droppings of palm civets, nocturnal tree-climbing creatures about the size of a large house cat, which eats ripe robusta coffee cherries for treats. The coffee beans, which are found inside of the cherries, remain intact after passing through the animal. Plantation workers track them and scoop their precious poop. (That's just....ewwwwww!)
Carrots were originally purple in colour, changing in the 17th Century to orange with newer varieties.
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