Food Facts

The world consumes about 2.25 billion cups of coffee every day.

🍕 Food Fact #10905

Pineapples take about two to three years to grow from planting to harvest.

🍕 Food Fact #10904

Mountain Dew was originally created as a mixer for whiskey in Tennessee.

🍕 Food Fact #10903

Oysters can change their gender back and forth throughout their lives.

🍕 Food Fact #10902

The world's largest food fight is La Tomatina in Spain, where participants throw about 150,000 tomatoes.

🍕 Food Fact #10901

Miracle berries contain a protein called miraculin that makes sour foods taste sweet for up to two hours.

🍕 Food Fact #10900

A single almond requires about 1.1 gallons of water to produce.

🍕 Food Fact #10899

Black pepper was once so valuable that it was used as currency and was called 'black gold.'

🍕 Food Fact #10898

The sandwich is named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who reportedly ate meat between bread so he could continue gambling.

🍕 Food Fact #10897

Durian fruit is banned from many hotels and public transport in Southeast Asia because of its extremely strong odor.

🍕 Food Fact #10896

The world's largest pumpkin pie weighed over 3,699 pounds and measured 20 feet in diameter.

🍕 Food Fact #10895

Fried chicken was popularized in the American South by enslaved African Americans who brought West African seasoning traditions.

🍕 Food Fact #10894

A single strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto.

🍕 Food Fact #10893

The smell of baking bread is used by real estate agents to make homes feel more inviting to potential buyers.

🍕 Food Fact #10892

Artichokes are actually flower buds — if not harvested, they bloom into large purple flowers.

🍕 Food Fact #10891

Spam is so popular in South Korea that gift sets of the canned meat are given during holidays.

🍕 Food Fact #10890

The world's largest omelet was made with over 145,000 eggs in Portugal in 2012.

🍕 Food Fact #10889

Pistachios are technically fruits, not nuts.

🍕 Food Fact #10888

The oldest known alcoholic beverage is a fermented drink from China dating back to around 7000 BC.

🍕 Food Fact #10887

Sunflower seeds are used to clean up radioactive contamination because the plants absorb heavy metals from soil.

🍕 Food Fact #10886

The average American eats about 35 tons of food in their lifetime.

🍕 Food Fact #10885

Asparagus can grow up to 10 inches in a single day under ideal conditions.

🍕 Food Fact #10884

The original recipe for Coca-Cola included an estimated 9 milligrams of cocaine per glass.

🍕 Food Fact #10883

Corn is grown on every continent except Antarctica.

🍕 Food Fact #10882

The most expensive fruit in the world is the Yubari King melon from Japan, which has sold for over $45,000 at auction.

🍕 Food Fact #10881

Fortune cookies were not invented in China — they originated in San Francisco.

🍕 Food Fact #10552

Rhubarb leaves contain oxalic acid and are poisonous if eaten in large quantities.

🍕 Food Fact #10551

Chocolate was once used as currency by the Aztecs.

🍕 Food Fact #10550

Canned food was invented in 1810, but the can opener was not invented until 1858.

🍕 Food Fact #10549

The Caesar salad was invented in Tijuana, Mexico, not in Rome.

🍕 Food Fact #10548

Avocados are toxic to birds, horses, and many small animals.

🍕 Food Fact #10547

A strawberry is not actually a berry, but a banana is.

🍕 Food Fact #10546

Vanilla is the second most expensive spice after saffron because of how labor-intensive it is to grow and pollinate.

🍕 Food Fact #10545

The longest pizza ever made measured over 6,333 feet and was created in California in 2017.

🍕 Food Fact #10544

Humans are genetically programmed to like sweet and salty foods because they signal the presence of carbohydrates and essential minerals.

🍕 Food Fact #10543

The ghost pepper was once used by the Indian military to make non-lethal chili grenades.

🍕 Food Fact #10542

The inside of a banana peel can be used to polish shoes and silverware.

🍕 Food Fact #10541

Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.

🍕 Food Fact #10540

Germany has over 1,500 different types of beer.

🍕 Food Fact #10539

A typical ear of corn has about 800 kernels in 16 rows.

🍕 Food Fact #10538

Ripe cranberries bounce like rubber balls, which is how farmers test their quality.

🍕 Food Fact #10537

Dark chocolate contains more antioxidants per ounce than blueberries.

🍕 Food Fact #10536

The oldest known recipe is for beer, written on a 4,000-year-old Sumerian tablet.

🍕 Food Fact #10535

Astronauts cannot cry in space because tears do not fall — they form floating blobs around the eyes.

🍕 Food Fact #10534

Bell peppers with four bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating raw, while three-bump peppers are better for cooking.

🍕 Food Fact #10533

The original Margherita pizza was designed to represent the Italian flag with tomato, mozzarella, and basil.

🍕 Food Fact #10532

Celery has negative calories — it takes more energy to digest than the calories it contains.

🍕 Food Fact #10531

Pringles are not technically potato chips — they are made from a dough of dehydrated potatoes, wheat starch, and flours.

🍕 Food Fact #10530

A single pomegranate can contain up to 1,400 seeds.

🍕 Food Fact #10529

The world's most expensive spice by weight is saffron, costing up to $5,000 per pound.

🍕 Food Fact #10528