Fun Facts About Eating

Here are some interesting and funny facts about healthy food:
-- Almonds are member of the peach family.
-- Banana is not a fruit, it is a herb.
-- Coffee beans are fruit pits.
-- Peanuts are actually legumes.
-- Ancient carrots were purple.
-- Apples are part of the rose family.
-- Strawberries have more vitamin C than the oranges.
-- Avocados are poisonous to birds.
-- Tomatoes were thought to be poisonous.
-- The water from the young coconut can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
-- One can of soda contains 10 teaspoons of sugar.
-- Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil.
-- For the past 30 years, the number of overweight teenagers has been tripled and also the number of overweight children has been doubled. This is a very worrying fact!

Did you know that….
-Goat’s milk is more popular around the world than cow’s milk.
-Honey is used in antifreeze and in the middle of golf balls.

-A hardboiled egg will spin, a soft boiled egg won’t.
-About 150 people per year are killed by coconuts.
-American people ate 33% more spinach in 1931 when Popeye became popular.
-Rice is the main food for half of the world’s population.
-The average American or Canadian will eat almost 12 pounds of cereal per year.
-Ketchup was sold in the 1930′s as medicine.
-The average French eats 500 snails per year.
-Watermelons cost up to $100 in Japan.