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.
McDonald’s sells approximately 550 million Big Macs annually in the United States and around one billion globally.
More than ninety TV shows and movies, including Parks & Recreation, Workaholics, and Star Trek, used the same beer prop, Heisler Beer.
Kinder Surprise Eggs are banned in the United States due to an FDA law from 1938 that forbids any confection with “non-nutritive objects” inside.
Eating bananas near bee hives may provoke aggression, as the banana scent resembles an alarm pheromone bees release when defending the hive.
Belarusians consume more potatoes per capita than anyone else in the world, with the average person in Belarus eating 341-375 pounds (155-170 kg) every year.
Honey bees visit around 2 million flowers and fly more than 55,000 miles to make just 1 pound of honey.
Nutella was invented during World War II when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
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.
Despite its famous tea culture, the UK ranks third in per capita tea consumption, with Ireland second and Turkey first, drinking over 1.5 times more tea than the United Kingdom.
Broccoli originated over 2,000 years ago in the Mediterranean through selective breeding of wild cabbage.
Space apparently smells like seared steak, hot metal, and welding fumes. This smell lingers on the spacesuits of astronauts after they perform spacewalks.
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.
Several of the “Real Facts” on Snapple caps have been found to be outdated, incorrect, or exaggerated.
Humans have been using yeast to produce alcohol for over 13,000 years, with evidence of beer brewing dating back to 11,000 BC in modern-day Israel.
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.
In the 1980s, Pringles’ founder, Fredric Baur, requested to be buried in a Pringles can. His children honored the request.
Eating just rabbit meat can cause “rabbit starvation,” a type of protein poisoning caused by too much protein and too little fat in the diet.
President George H. W. Bush banned broccoli from being served on Air Force One and at the White House because he simply did not like the vegetable.
The Scoville Scale was developed in 1912 by Wilbur Scoville, using diluted pepper extracts and human tasters to measure the heat level.
Potato chip bags are filled with nitrogen gas to prevent oxidation and maintain crispness, ensuring the chips stay fresh and unspoiled.
