Food & Drink Fact Images

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

Smelling jasmine flowers has been found to reduce chocolate cravings.

The can opener wasn’t invented until almost 50 years after the can. Earlier methods to open cans included the use of a hammer and chisel.

Until selective breeding made them taste better, watermelons tasted bitter and were harvested only for their water content.

In 18th-century England, having a pineapple was a symbol of wealth because of high import fees. They were often used as displays instead of being eaten.

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.

Unlike most drinks, the bubbles in Guinness sink rather than rise.

A survey conducted by the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy found that 7% of American adults, about 16.4 million people, believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

Rice contributes roughly one-fifth of the world’s total calorie intake.

In 2013, Coca-Cola’s “The AHH Effect” campaign included registering domain names from “ahh.com” to one with 61 H’s.

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.

Sauerkraut sounded far too German for U.S. patriots during World War I, who instead nicknamed it “Liberty Cabbage.”

Green tea, black tea, and oolong tea all come from the same plant. The only difference is the oxidation level of the leaves.

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.”

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.

In 2019, it was reported that bubble tea shops were so profitable that even the Yakuza were getting in on the business.

A priest and book publisher devised recipes inspired by biblical foods, including a locust soup to represent John the Baptist’s diet of “locusts and wild honey.”

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