Is anyone else feeling hungry? Just me, hmm… well, these food and drink facts are gonna leave you hungry (or thirsty) for more!
Here at The Fact Site, we have rounded up the most interesting facts about your favorite foods or beverages, and you can see them all right here!
From strange fruit & vegetables to your favorite dairy products, these fun facts should please your appetite.
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Food & Drink Facts
Several of the “Real Facts” on Snapple caps have been found to be outdated, incorrect, or exaggerated.
Yuri Gagarin’s first meal in space consisted of two tubes of pureed meat followed by a tube of chocolate sauce for dessert.
Cranberries are native to North America and are one of only three fruits native to the continent that are grown commercially.
In 2007, Oklahoma declared the watermelon its state vegetable. Lawmakers tried to reverse the decision in 2015, but the effort failed, and the fruit remains the state vegetable.
Cotton Candy grapes are a naturally bred hybrid that took over eight years to develop by crossbreeding grape varieties to achieve a flavor similar to cotton candy.
About 4% of global cheese production is stolen annually, making cheese the world’s most stolen food.
The Miracle Berry can temporarily make sour foods taste sweet due to the glycoprotein miraculin, which binds to taste receptors.
When Boston went into lockdown after the 2013 Marathon bombing, authorities asked Dunkin’ Donuts to remain open to supply food and drinks to police and emergency responders.
Ocean Spray Cranberry cocktail comes from cooperatively owned cranberry farms where 100% of the profits from the products are given back to the farmers.
In 2012, Papa John’s was sued for sending late-night spam texts and settled for $16.5 million after people demanded over $250 million in damages.
Sour Patch Kids and Swedish Fish are made by the same manufacturer, and red Sour Patch Kids are essentially Swedish Fish with sour sugar.
There are over 196 different flavors of Pringles. This includes mushroom and cream, pecan pie, and white chocolate peppermint.
Nestlé produces KitKat and Rolo globally, with the exception of the U.S., where these products are manufactured by their competitor, Hershey’s.
By the end of 2019, seven out of ten Coca-Cola bottles sold in Australia were made with recycled plastic, as part of the company’s “World Without Waste” initiative.
In 2019, it was reported that bubble tea shops were so profitable that even the Yakuza were getting in on the business.
Apples float because they are less dense than water, partly due to air pockets that account for about 25% of their volume.
The Pringles mascot’s name, “Julius Pringles,” started as a 2006 Wikipedia hoax. Until then, he was simply known as Mr. P, but in 2013, Kellogg officially adopted the name.
Hufu, a tofu product designed to look and taste like human flesh, was jokingly marketed as “the healthy human flesh alternative” for “cannibals who want to quit.”
