LIFE IS A STRange Phenonmenon, but who wants too kow whats wierd about food?…
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; “7″ was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. “UP” indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Ketchup was created for use as a drug, not as a condiment.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!food ingredients suppliers
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
You’ll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
America on average eats 18 acres of pizza every day.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.health food manufacturer
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite
and even stranger:
1. What the average American consumes in one year
• 53 gallons of soda
• 24 lbs of ice cream
• 141.6 lbs caloric sweetener, includes 42 lbs of corn syrup
• 24 lbs of artificial sweetener
• 600 lbs of non-cheese dairy products
• 110 lbs of red meat
• 134 lbs of wheat flour (who ate my 134 lbs?)
• a total of 1996.3 pounds of food per year
Seriously, how can 1 person (in 1 year) consume 600 lbs of dairy products, excluding cheese? Add in the 31.4 lbs of cheese the average American eats per year and that adds up to 632 lbs of dairy products. Yuck. Just the thought makes my nose stuffy and my head ache.
2. “Per calorie, cooked spinach has more than twice as much protein as a cheeseburger; lentils have a third more protein than meatloaf with gravy.”