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
Raw salmon sushi gained popularity in Japan only after the Norwegian salmon industry began a marketing campaign in the 1980s and 1990s to sell its parasite-free farmed Atlantic salmon.
In 1995, the Empire State Building was lit in blue to commemorate the launch of blue M&Ms, a new color selected by more than 11 million voters in a national campaign.
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.
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.
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.
Chipotles aren’t a separate chili pepper species. They are simply red, fully ripened jalapeños that have been smoked and dried.
Smuckers Uncrustables sends all of the crusts they cut off their sandwiches to be made into animal feed.
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.
Costa Coffee employs Gennaro Pelliccia as a coffee taster, who has had his tongue insured for £10 million since 2009.
Before becoming famous, Madonna worked at a Dunkin’ Donuts in New York City but was fired after a week for playing with the jelly squirter machine.
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.
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.
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.
Until selective breeding made them taste better, watermelons tasted bitter and were harvested only for their water content.
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.
Volkswagen sells more sausages than cars in some years, with 7.2 million sausages sold in 2015 compared to 5.82 million cars.
The word “vegan” was coined in 1944 by combining the first three and last two letters of “vegetarian,” symbolizing “the beginning and end of vegetarian.”
Potato chip bags are filled with nitrogen gas to prevent oxidation and maintain crispness, ensuring the chips stay fresh and unspoiled.
Doritos were engineered with an optimized mix of fat, salt, acids, and fast-melting ingredients that trigger the brain’s reward system, which makes them surprisingly hard to stop eating.
“Pub” is short for public house, which means that an establishment is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for drinking on the premises.
Nestlé produces KitKat and Rolo globally, with the exception of the U.S., where these products are manufactured by their competitor, Hershey’s.
