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
A loofah sponge is the dried interior of a luffa gourd from the cucumber family, which you can grow in your garden. When the fruit is young, it’s edible and cooked much like zucchini.
Chipotles aren’t a separate chili pepper species. They are simply red, fully ripened jalapeños that have been smoked and dried.
Tyromancy is the practice of predicting the future by interpreting the shapes, patterns, and textures of cheese.
It costs around $290,000 per year in fees to run a hot dog cart near the Central Park Zoo in New York City. This does not include other cart-related expenses.
Despite their appearance, banana trees aren’t trees. They are actually the largest herb species in the world and are distantly related to ginger.
In 2016, a student left a pineapple in an art museum in Scotland. Two days later, it had been placed in a glass case as part of an exhibition.
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 1886, Coca-Cola sold nine servings of its drinks per day in its first year; now it has over 2.2 billion servings consumed daily worldwide, which is about 25,500 every second.
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.
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.
Cranberries are native to North America and are one of only three fruits native to the continent that are grown commercially.
The Scoville Scale was developed in 1912 by Wilbur Scoville, using diluted pepper extracts and human tasters to measure the heat level.
In 2019, it was reported that bubble tea shops were so profitable that even the Yakuza were getting in on the business.
Spam mail got its name from a “Monty Python” skit that joked about Spam canned meat being everywhere and impossible to avoid.
Studies have found that regular garlic consumption can make your body odor smell much more pleasant.
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.
On average, apples sold in supermarkets are already 9-12 months old. They are picked unripe, treated with chemicals, waxed and boxed, then kept in cold storage.
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.
