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
In 2017, 70 students drank so much alcohol at a Maryland house party that the air inside the house registered 0.01% on a breathalyzer.
Cooling cooked pasta for 24 hours elevates its resistant starch levels, which can lower blood glucose spikes and serve as a prebiotic.
In 1981, the Reagan administration proposed USDA regulations that would have allowed condiments like ketchup to be classified as vegetables; however, this move was never implemented.
Ocean Spray Cranberry cocktail comes from cooperatively owned cranberry farms where 100% of the profits from the products are given back to the farmers.
Hormel Foods, the creator of SPAM, kept a file of the hate mail they received from U.S. soldiers who had to eat the canned meat product while deployed overseas.
When coffee first emerged in the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, it was considered a drug, and its consumption was forbidden.
More than ninety TV shows and movies, including Parks & Recreation, Workaholics, and Star Trek, used the same beer prop, Heisler Beer.
After selling KFC, Colonel Sanders still made surprise visits to franchises to check the quality and would call them out if the gravy was not up to his standards.
Ketchup started as a British attempt to replicate a Chinese fermented fish sauce called “kê-tsiap” before evolving into the tomato-based condiment we know today.
Chipotles aren’t a separate chili pepper species. They are simply red, fully ripened jalapeños that have been smoked and dried.
Until selective breeding made them taste better, watermelons tasted bitter and were harvested only for their water content.
Red Lobster once suffered a loss of over $3 million from an “Endless Crab” promotion after an executive underestimated just how much crab customers could consume.
According to the FDA, Kraft Singles are labeled as “pasteurized prepared cheese product” due to containing under 51% real cheese.
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.”
Several of the “Real Facts” on Snapple caps have been found to be outdated, incorrect, or exaggerated.
In 1995, blue M&Ms were added to the lineup following a public poll that replaced the tan M&Ms, which were deemed redundant because they looked similar to the existing brown M&Ms.
Early Orange Crush had orange pulp added during bottling to give the soda the appearance of freshly squeezed juice.
Honey and items immersed in honey can be preserved for centuries. The long shelf life is due to an enzyme found in the stomachs of bees.
Unpeeled oranges float in water, while peeled oranges sink. This surprising phenomenon is due to the increased buoyancy of orange peel, which contains small pockets of air.
