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
The oldest continuously operating restaurant in the world is Sobrino de Botín in Madrid, Spain, founded in 1725!
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.
McDonald’s sells approximately 550 million Big Macs annually in the United States and around one billion globally.
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.”
Despite their appearance, banana trees aren’t trees. They are actually the largest herb species in the world and are distantly related to ginger.
Kosher salt has larger, coarser crystals and usually lacks iodine and anti-caking agents, unlike table salt, which is finely ground, often iodized, and includes anti-caking agents.
Taco Bell made a commercial featuring 25 people actually named “Ronald McDonald,” all of whom endorsed their brand.
Apples float because they are less dense than water, partly due to air pockets that account for about 25% of their volume.
Eating bananas near bee hives may provoke aggression, as the banana scent resembles an alarm pheromone bees release when defending the hive.
Elementary students from Joliet, Illinois, successfully lobbied to have popcorn designated as the state’s official snack food in 2003.
The United States Department of Agriculture says the official definition of a sandwich is “at least 35 percent cooked meat and no more than 50 percent bread.”
