An average ear of corn has about 800 kernels arranged in 16 rows.

The color red makes food taste sweeter — a reason ketchup bottles and candy packaging are often red.

The global banana trade is dominated by a single variety, the Cavendish, making it vulnerable to disease.

The world's most expensive spice, saffron, requires 150,000 hand-picked crocus flowers to produce one kilogram.

Miso's probiotic content varies by processing — unpasteurized miso retains live cultures while pasteurized does not.

Coffee is one of the most antioxidant-rich foods in the typical Western diet.

Nutmeg is hallucinogenic in large doses due to the compound myristicin — but the lethal dose is very small.

Coffee is the world's second most traded commodity after oil.

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