27 Random Food Facts That Will Blow Your Mind
1. Mountain Dew is mainly just orange juice.
2. Pringles once had a lawsuit trying to prove that they weren’t really potato chips.
3. When you eat figs, technically, you're also eating wasps.
4. Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.
5. The largest wholesale purchaser of kale, before it became a craze, was Pizza Hut.
6. Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and kohlrabi all come from the same plant
7. Cheez-Its contain paprika!
8. The bananas we eat today are clones.
9. Chimichanga literally means "thingamajig" in spanish.
10. Tomatoes are not native to Italy.
11. Potatoes are actually 80% water and 20% solid.
12. Haribo green gummy bears aren't lime or green apple flavored, but strawberry!
13. Humans share 60% of our DNA with bananas.
14. Shredded cheese has cellulose, which is a wood product (aka sawdust) so that it doesn't stick together.
15. Pineapple juice can help tenderize meat (thank you, Food Wars!).
16. Strawberries aren't berries, but bananas are!
17. There are two types of hot dog buns: regular and New England style.
18. Mangoes can get sunburned.
19. Eating lollipops is just swallowing flavored saliva.
20. Apples have small traces of cyanide in their seeds!!!
21. I recently found out that Fritos only have three ingredients: corn, corn oil, and salt?!
22. Almonds are a member of the peach family!
23. Baby carrots are just regular carrots that have been shaved down to the bite-size pieces we see bagged in stores.
24. Ice cream sometimes contains a form of seaweed in it (as a thickening agent) called red algae.
25. Altitude can change taste.
26. An ear of corn used to be way smaller than it currently is.
27. Hawaiian pizza was invented in...CANADA.
The first thought that might come to your mind is that this is a miracle of God! It is not just food but the Prasad of the Gods and that's why, it is a divine blessing that the prasad does not go to waste. But that's not entirely true and I am not mocking or trying to hurt anybody's sentiments here. I am just sharing what happens behind the scenes and why the prasad is never wasted, as told to me by a priest and observed with my own eyes.
In recent times, I have had the opportunity to visit the Jagannath Temple in Puri in January 2018 and December 2019. During my second visit, I chose to have the prasad that is offered. The prices are extorbitant, by the way! The temple committee has a rate chart starting from 500 rupees for which you get two sweets only and all the way to 1 lakh rupees. I opted for the 1,500 rupees Prasad in which only one person can have the very basic Prasad consisting of rice, dal and two types of sabzi.
They are collecting funds for the temple in the name of Prasad, but let's leave that aside. My priest-cum-guide told me two interesting things. He told me that the food in the temple is cooked in three earthern pots, one kept above the other and the food on the topmost pot gets cooked first followed by the middle one and then the last. People consider it the blessing of God, but Class 7 Physics taught me the principles of convection and this was expected.
What he told me next was that no matter the number of devotees coming to the temple, which ranges between 5,000 to 50,000 per day, the prasad never goes to waste. This made me curious and I asked how they manage to budget the food every day, to which I was told that they cook on a batch system by checking the number of devotees paying for the prasad. You pay for the prasad first, then go for darshan, which takes at least an hour on average and after coming out of the main shrine, one gets the prasad. Since the food is cooked on the basis of pre-payment of the meals, they never end up over-preparing. And if there is still a surplus, that is distributed among the poor outside the temple premises.
1.Potatoes can be used to remove rust. Simply cut it in half, add salt to the surface and there you go. Rub it against any corroded objects.
2.Vinegar, Ketchup, lemon juice, can also remove rust. Basically any food with oxalic acid/citric acid will do. Save yourself some money from buying rust removers.
3. Lemon juice can be used to remove highlighter strains. Get some juice on a piece of cotton, rub it on the highlighted text and the color will fade.
4. Your average apple is a year old. Most apples are picked slightly unripe, treated with chemicals and stored in warehouses for 9–12 months.
5. Banana candies are what bananas used to taste like. Ever wondered why banana candies taste nothing like bananas? That’s because it was based off the Gros Michel banana, which was completely wiped out by the Panama disease (fungus), after that we are left with our replacement bananas.
6. Red bell peppers are simply ripen green bell peppers. Yellow or orange bell peppers are also different stages of the bell pepper. They are the same fruit.
7. Popsicles are invented by an 11-year-old. He invented the popsicle by accident when a drink he made was frozen with the stir stick stucked between.
8. Almond allergens can be transferred through sex. If you have an almond allergy, and your partner have just eaten almonds, don’t have sex.
9. You can make diamonds with peanut butter. Peanut butter is a carbon-rich material, imerge it through enough pressure and it becomes diamonds. I wonder where diamond shops get their diamonds from…
10. The original Coca-Cola contains cocaine. The name basically comes from it’s two main ingredients, Coca leaf and Kola nuts. Coca leaf contains cocaine.
11. Fruit stickers are edible. So is the glue used to glue it. But unless you like eating stickers I’ll advice you to peel it off.
12. Bananas, cucumbers and kiwis are berries, while strawberries, blackberries, raspberries not berries but aggregate fruit.
Here are 7 facts about food that you may find hard to swallow.
Honey is basically bee vomit. Some bees are "forager" bees, which collect nectar from flowering plants. The foragers drink the nectar and keep it in their "honey stomach
Next time you're feeling dehydrated and don't feel like drinking water
You can make sure your cranberries are fresh by throwing it on the counter and seeing if it bounces back to you.
During the 1830s ketchup was said to have medicinal properties. People thought it would cure diarrhea, indigestion, jaundice, and rheumatism.
Gelatin
Gelatin is made from boiling skin, cartilage and bones from animals such as pigs, cows, and chickens.
Pretzels
During the 17th century, pretzels came to symbolize undying love
Gum
The first gum was from Europe over 9,00 years ago
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Pistachios nuts can spontaneously combust when shipped in large batches. The nut's high oil content and low water content mean that large batches can self-heat to the point where they catch on fire.
Though water itself doesn't expire,bottled water often has an expiration date. This is because plastic can begin to leach into the water over time, contaminating it with chemicals, such as antimony and bisphenol A.
Carnauba wax, is the same type of wax that is used to give gummy candy a glossy sheen.
Nutmeg in large amount works like a hallucinogen due to a natural compound in it called myristicin. Nutmeg also has mind-altering effects if taken in large doses.
It’s really just a mixture of sugar, milk, vanilla, lecithin, and cocoa butter.
Exposure to softer music or background noise can promote healthier food choices.Loud music seemed to make people drink more, and faster.
Nutella is so popular, 25% of all hazelnuts end up in a jar!
Our genes are comprised of 3 billion building blocks which are surprisingly un-unique.Amazingly we share 50% of our DNA with banana.
Because of potatoes' water content and chemistry, they're able to absorb and reflect radio wave signals the same way humans do. So, Boeing Co. used potatoes to test their in-flight Wi-Fi signal by putting sacks of potatoes on a seat for days at a time in order to conduct their experiment.