Food is very interesting. There are many different kinds of food. Like everything else in the world, there are some things that people don’t know about food. Here are 10 weird facts about food that you may have never known.
- Mountain Dew is partly made up of orange juice. But did you know that besides high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors, and preservatives, your favorite lime yellow soda is actually made from orange juice
- Chimichanga means ‘thingamajig’. The name is an exclamation coined in the 1950s by a cook who was trying not to curse in front of her young nieces and nephews.
- Eating a lollipop is just swallowing flavored saliva. When you think about it, that’s just gross.
- Potatoes are 80% water. These carby beauties are only 20% solid and are mostly made of water.
- Figs sometimes contain dead wasps. Female wasps enter into male figs (which we don’t eat) and lay eggs, and then the baby wasps mate with their siblings and tunnel out. However, sometimes a female wasp accidentally attempts to enter a female fig, causing her to die, decompose, and then get eaten by anyone who chooses to chomp down on a fig.
- Scientists can make diamonds out of peanut butter. Thanks to geologists and their experiments with high pressure and high temperature, diamonds are also being made using regular old peanut butter. So maybe now they’ll be a little cheaper
- Bananas are inbred. One major disease could wipe out the entire banana population. Researchers are working on a way to diversify the genes, but in the meantime, appreciate your creepy clone bananas before they’re suddenly gone for good.
- Humans share 60% of our DNA with bananas. Our bodies have 3 billion genetic building blocks and only a very tiny amount of those are unique, meaning most people are mostly alike. What’s even more surprising? We have a lot in common with the things around us, including 60% identical genes as a simple banana.
- Altitude can change the way food tastes. Flying changes your body chemistry, so certain flavors taste way different on a plane than they do down on the ground. Some things are saltier or sweeter, and alcohol goes right to your head.
- Tomatoes don’t come from Italy. You may love sauce over your pasta, but don’t think for one minute that tomatoes originated in Italy. In fact, Europeans used to fear tomatoes, thinking they were poisonous.
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