I decided to take a different route with today's post after stumbling upon a few fun food facts over the past few days. The list below is compiled from a few different sites and, quite frankly, some of them are just crazy. I won't spoil any of them, but I'm willing to bet a few of them will come as a surprise.
1. Americans eat 900% more broccoli today than they did 20 years ago.
2. Each egg has approximately 17,000 tiny pores covering its shell. These pores can absorb flavors and odors which is why it's best to store them in their carton.
3. There are over 500 different types of bananas in the world. That's bananas!
4. Apples are members of the rose family.
5. Americans eat 350 slices of pizza every second. That totals 100 acres of pizza each day.
6. The FDA allows approximately 30 insect fragments and one rodent hair per 100 grams of peanut butter. Still craving that PB&J?
7. Refried beans are actually only fried once. A translation error resulted in this mishap when the original name of the dish means "well fried beans".
8. Worcestershire sauce is made by completely dissolving anchovies in vinegar. The sauce contains the entire fish, bones and all.
9. It takes 12 honeybees to produce 1 tablespoon of honey.
10. Pumpkins are actually a fruit, not a vegetable.
11. The first carrots originally brought to the US from Europe they were purple.
12. American spend more than $2 billion dollars each year on Halloween candy.
13. Forest Mars (son of Mars candy founder) and his business partner Bruce Murrie (son of Hershey founder) created M&M's. The candy got it's name from the first letters of their last names.
14. The creamy filling in Twinkies actually isn't cream at all, but is mostly Crisco, a vegetable shortening.
15. Corn dextrin, a common thickener used in junk food, is also used as glue on postage stamps and envelopes.
16. In 1950 McDonald's largest value meal option included a hamburger, fries and coke and totaled 600 calories. Today's same value meal clocks in at 1550 calories because of large increases in portion size.
17. There is more real lemon juice in Pledge Lemon Furniture Polish than Country Time Lemonade.
18. The powder on chewing gum is finely ground marble.
19. During your lifetime you'll eat approximately 60,000 pounds of food. That is the weight of about 6 elephants. Hopefully most of that food will come from recipes you found here :)
Not sure why I decided to stop one short of 20, but maybe I'll continue these fun facts in another post down the road. Until then, make sure to watch out for that grasshopper leg in your peanut butter!
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