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
Apples float because they are less dense than water, partly due to air pockets that account for about 25% of their volume.
Apple seeds and the pits of cherries, apricots, and peaches contain cyanide, but you’d need to consume a large quantity for it to make you sick or be harmful.
Hubba Bubba released a bubble gum-flavored soda in 1988, which included a diet version, but it was discontinued within a few years due to low demand.
The “drink eight glasses of water a day” rule isn’t well supported by science. Most people can just drink water when thirsty and increase it if they’re older, active, or in hot weather.
Nutella was invented during World War II when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
In 1896, bars in New York often served the same sandwich to different customers all day as a loophole to avoid laws that required them to serve meals with alcohol sales.
More than ninety TV shows and movies, including Parks & Recreation, Workaholics, and Star Trek, used the same beer prop, Heisler Beer.
The Milky Way bar exists in two versions. The global version is sold as 3 Musketeers in the United States, and the U.S. version is sold internationally as the Mars bar.
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.
McDonald’s sells approximately 550 million Big Macs annually in the United States and around one billion globally.
There are over 196 different flavors of Pringles. This includes mushroom and cream, pecan pie, and white chocolate peppermint.
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.
The distinctive taste of bubblegum is derived from a blend of flavors and spices, including banana, pineapple, cinnamon, cloves, and wintergreen. Each brand uses its own unique recipe.
Fruit stickers can be eaten without causing serious harm, but they are not considered edible. It is recommended to remove them and wash the fruit before eating.
Green olives and black olives are the same fruit. The green ones are picked before ripening, while the black ones are left to ripen on the tree.
Elementary students from Joliet, Illinois, successfully lobbied to have popcorn designated as the state’s official snack food in 2003.
Frito-Lay launched Cheetos Lip Balm in 2005, but it was quickly discontinued after failing to gain popularity with consumers.
In 1943, U.S. officials imposed a short-lived ban on sliced bread as a wartime conservation measure, which lasted less than two months.
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.
Space apparently smells like seared steak, hot metal, and welding fumes. This smell lingers on the spacesuits of astronauts after they perform spacewalks.
