Category Archives: Food

Oct 14 2016
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Food, Health

Fact #1209: There are blue bandaids that have metal in them so that they can be found by a metal detector if they fall off a worker in the food preparation industry.

Source: https://www.uline.com/BL_6721/Metal-Detectable-Bandages

Oct 04 2016
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Food, Weather

Fact #1201: Strawberry poptart sales increase sevenfold when a hurricane is expected.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/business/yourmoney/what-walmart-knows-about-customers-habits.html

Sep 13 2016
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Food

Fact #1186: Ferrero uses a quarter of the world’s hazelnuts making Nutella.

Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/16/347749070/thanks-to-nutella-the-world-needs-more-hazelnuts

Sep 12 2016
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Food

Fact #1185: Hershey Bars contain only 11% cacao, only 1% more than the FDA legal minimum to be called chocolate.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24276-2004Jun8.html

Sep 02 2016
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Food, Science

Fact #1180: Soda is fizzier in cans (vs. plastic bottles) because CO2 cannot escape an aluminium can. CO2 escapes sealed PET bottles quite readily.

Source: http://www.dailyedge.ie/soft-drinks-2192004-Jul2015/

Aug 31 2016
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Food

Fact #1178: Tic tacs are almost pure sugar but due to their weight are allowed to be labeled as zero sugar per serving.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic_Tac#Ingredients

Jul 29 2016
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Food, History

Fact #1155: In England in the late 1600s, pineapples used to be valued at $8,000, but were rarely eaten and used as a status symbol at parties.

Source: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-does-eating-pineapple-make-your-mouth-sore/

Jul 21 2016
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Food, History

Fact #1149: The apples sown by Johnny Appleseed were largely sour and inedible, and were usually used to make hard cider rather than be baked in pies or eaten raw.

Source: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/real-johnny-appleseed-brought-applesand-booze-american-frontier-180953263/?no-ist

Jul 14 2016
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Food

Fact #1144: Michelin goes to extraordinary lengths to maintain the anonymity of its restaurant inspectors, so much so that many of the company’s top executives have never even met an inspector.

Jul 05 2016
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Food

Fact #1138: Rice can grow in a wide range of environments, but it is typically grown in submerged fields because it can tolerate such conditions while most weeds and pests cannot.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice

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