Food facts. Interesting Food and Drink Facts: Things You Didn't Know Before

The colonialists and missionaries of South America met in the 16th century a capybara animal - a rodent leading a semi-aquatic lifestyle. They asked the Pope to declare the capybara a fish so that its meat could be eaten during fasts, to which he kindly agreed. Eating poppy seed patties or buns can cause a positive blood drug test. In the Scandinavian countries, dishes from rotten or fermented fish are common. For example, the Icelandic dish hakarl is made from rotten shark meat, and the Swedish surströmming is made from sour herring.
In China, they have long loved to feast on crocodile meat. On the banks of the Yangtze, small crocodiles were caught and fattened until the tail reached the desired length. Thus, the reptile became a pet, moreover, it also performed the functions of a watchdog. The fact is that the crocodile was kept at the entrance to the yard in a box like a doghouse, where he was firmly chained to his hind leg with a rather long chain. Until the middle of the 19th century, restaurants served all ordered dishes at once - this way of serving is called service à la française ("French system"). In the 1830s, the Russian prince Alexander Kurakin visited France and taught restaurateurs another way - to serve dishes gradually, in the order they appear on the menu. In modern restaurants, this system is most popular and is called service à la russe.
Camembert cheese should be consumed as close to the expiration date as possible, but never after that date.
Once a young doctor, invited to a hopelessly ill Russian boy, allowed him to eat whatever he wanted. The boy ate pork with cabbage and, to the surprise of others, began to recover. After this incident, the doctor prescribed pork with cabbage to a sick German boy, but he, having eaten, died the next day. According to one version, it is this story that underlies the expression "what is good for a Russian, then death for a German."
When sugar arrived in Europe, it was a luxury. To show their position, it has become fashionable for rich people to have black teeth.
In the European Union, tomatoes, rhubarb, carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, melons, watermelons and ginger are considered fruits. Such a law allows the legal production and export of preserves and jams made from these plants, which, according to EU rules, can only be made from fruits.
Fugu fish is the most exquisite delicacy in Japanese cuisine. However, if improperly prepared, eating this fish can cause fatal poisoning. Scientists have found that the toxicity of puffer fish is not due to innate properties, but solely to its diet - starfish and shells, from which it receives poison. If you feed it with non-toxic food, there will be no deadly poison in it at all. However, this discovery did not arouse the joy of chefs and owners of Japanese restaurants. After all, a portion of fugu is very expensive and attracts tourists precisely by the opportunity to experience the thrill, and the absence of danger can significantly reduce the price of the dish.
One of the hardest freeze-dried foods to make is tea. And one of the most delicious, according to astronauts, is freeze-dried cottage cheese with cranberries and nuts. It tastes like fresh. Space products are the safest and most natural. They do not contain any chemical or synthetic additives: it is not known how they will behave in space, where, among other things, solar radiation and magnetic waves are present.
In Japan, it is believed that sushi made especially for you by the warm hands of a cook is tastier when eaten with your hands. In addition, this is respect and praise for the chef, especially if the sushi was prepared in front of you by the owner of the establishment. This custom is called skinship, "contact through the skin." In the 19th century, packaging for sweets first appeared in Russia - a bonbonniere (from the French word bonbonniere - "candy box") in the form of boxes of various shapes and sizes. This is due to the fact that the traditional home cooking "confection" (as we once said) began to be supplanted by their industrial production and confectionery or biscuit shops appeared everywhere, which became widespread immediately after the end of the war of 1812.
In 1912, the centenary of Napoleon's expulsion from Moscow was widely celebrated in Moscow. For this anniversary, a whole range of drinks and dishes, decorated in a festive way, appeared. There was also a new cake - puff with cream, made in the form of a triangle, in which it was supposed to see the famous triangular hat of Napoleon. The cocked hat became an obligatory part of the emperor's image after Lermontov's poems; He wears a three-cornered hat And a gray marching coat. The cake quickly received the name "Napoleon" and universal recognition. This name has survived to this day, although the shape of the cake has become rectangular.
Contrary to the prevailing stereotype, sweets are not so harmful at the beginning of a meal. According to some nutritionists, a cake or pastry can play the role of a kind of anti-aperitif that calms the "wolf" appetite. It all depends on how hungry you are and how long you have been eating. If you miss another meal, start your meal with a few pieces of chocolate, a couple of sweets, a piece of cake, a few spoonfuls of jam or ice cream. This will speed up the saturation of the blood with glucose, reduce the feeling of hunger and save you from overeating.
At the end of the 18th century, a curious medical experiment was carried out in Sweden. The local king Gustav III was extremely interested in the question - is coffee harmful or beneficial? In order to solve the problem once and for all, the king pardoned two twin brothers sentenced to death, obliging them to drink their drink every day; one for coffee, the other for tea. And he assigned two professors to the twins, who were obliged to closely monitor them and report to the king about the slightest changes in their state of health. And the attitude towards coffee in those days was such that quite obvious things were expected from the experiment: in a year or two, a twin who consumes coffee had to die in terrible agony. Reality decisively refuted all expectations, and in a rather cynical way. Both professors were the first to leave the five: the king himself became the third; the twins thus lasted the longest, both living to very advanced years. And the first of them, at the age of 83, left the world the one who drank ... tea. It was a surprisingly hot summer in France that year. It was stuffy in the gardens of Versailles. The king was bored, the ladies suffered, fanning themselves with fans. They were not even interested in the unique collection of original tableware, which the Viscount de Cruchon, a recognized connoisseur of wines and a well-known collector, put on display in the palace park. But then the viscount took a huge transparent bowl and began to mix something in it. He filled it with light wine, juices, sugar-cured fruit and chilled champagne, resulting in a refreshing drink of unusual, exceptionally pleasant taste. The sleepy kingdom came to life, the ladies, one after another, began to admire: "Kryushon! Oh, Kryushon!" And the new drink, which received the name of its creator, which, by the way, is translated from French as a "jug", became popular at court. All summer long, ladies and gentlemen just did what they poured and mixed wines, flavored them with spices, added various fruits. The king, taking part in entertainment with pleasure, threw rose petals there, and his favorites tried to catch them in their glass. Many years have passed since then, not a single generation has changed. But the gourd, the gourmet dessert alcoholic drink served at celebrations, is still in vogue. Since it is served chilled, it is especially good in spring and summer. For its preparation, of course, it is best to use fresh fruits and berries, which we now have no shortage of. However, if there are none at hand, it doesn’t matter, canned, candied, and frozen ones will do. What else is needed? Light table grape wines, cognac, rum, liquor. And usually champagne.
Nicolaus Copernicus is known to everyone as an astronomer, the creator of the heliocentric picture of the world. However, according to the historians of medicine S. Hand and A. Kunin, he deserves no less, and perhaps even greater fame as the inventor of the sandwich. The invention was made by him for medical purposes. The history of the invention of the sandwich is as follows. As a young man, Copernicus studied medicine for two years at the University of Padua in Italy, but did not receive a doctoral degree. After that, his uncle, Bishop Watsepirode, in a kindred way, arranged him as a canon in the Frombork Cathedral and at the same time commandant of the Olsztyn castle. The castle was besieged by the army of the Teutonic Knights, and a few months later an epidemic of an unknown disease began within the walls of the castle. It is known that morbidity was high and mortality was low (only two people died). The medicines used by Copernicus did not work. Then he decided to investigate the causes of the disease. The astronomer decided that the reasons could lie in the diet. He divided the inhabitants of the fortress into small groups, isolated them from one another and put them on different diets. It soon turned out that only one group did not get sick - the one whose diet did not include bread. In this case, it would be reasonable to refuse bread altogether, but it turned out to be impossible to do this in a besieged castle, where there was not a wide variety of supplies. Coarse black bread was the main food of the inhabitants of the fortress. Walking along long corridors, climbing narrow spiral staircases to the fortress towers, the defenders of the castle often dropped their ration of bread on the floor. Picking up a piece, it was shaken off or blown over and eaten. Perhaps, Copernicus reasoned, the infection came from the dirt that fell on the pieces of bread from the floor. The astronomer came up with the idea that slices of bread should be smeared with some light edible substance, against the background of which dirt can be easily seen. Then the adhering dirt could be cleaned off together with the spread. As such a spread, they chose steeply whipped cream without sugar, that is, butter. And so the sandwich was born. And the infection soon ceased to roam the castle. The Teutons failed neither to capture the fortress nor to learn the secret of the sandwich. When they were forced to lift the siege, Adolf Buttenad, the head of the guild of pharmacists and doctors, came to Olsztyn from Leipzig to learn about the causes and methods of treating the disease on the spot. Copernicus shared his experience with him. Two years after the death of the great astronomer, in 1545, after one of the wars that were fought between numerous and small German principalities, a similar disease appeared again in Europe. Buttenad remembered the Copernican method and began to promote it. As far as we know, sandwiches this time did not help stop the epidemic, but the new dish was to the taste of many and gradually spread to all countries.
Pancakes "Suzette" are a wonderful dessert that you should try just once and you will fall in love with them forever. What is interesting about their secret - in the recipe, in the spices, in the magic of the cook, in the past? History keeps an incredibly beautiful legend about the birth of this recipe. According to one source, the origin of this recipe is associated with the name of Susanna Reichenberg. Few people know that one of the most beautiful love stories is associated with the name of this actress of the French theater, in which there were some culinary discoveries ... Suzanne Reichenberg (1853-1924) was a French actress of German origin. In one of the plays by the novelist Marivaux, which was staged at the privileged theater of the French Comedy (Comedie Francaise), Suzanne played a leading role. According to the script, she was supposed to eat pancakes. Since the play was popular and played on stage every day, Suzanne had to eat pancakes every day. They, as well as other food for the theater, were prepared by a cook named Monsieur Joseph. At some point, he thought about the difficult gastronomic share that Suzanne endured every time in the name of art, pretending to eat hateful pancakes with pleasure, and especially for the actress he created special, small, almost airy sweet pancakes that no one has ever could get bored. Rumor has it that Joseph was in love with Suzanne ... In 1934, a book of memoirs by Henry Charpentier, a French chef who immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s, was published in New York. and opened the famous Henri Restaurant there, whose guests were the English Queen Victoria, the English King Edward VII, the Italian Queen Margherita, the Belgian King Leopold, Theodore Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, Marilyn Monroe, Sarah Bernhardt and many, many other famous people. On the other hand, in his book, Henry talked about how, as a result of an accidental mistake, Suzette pancakes were born. And it happened on January 31, 1896, when Prince Edward of Wales, the future King of England Edward VII, came to the Cafe de Paris restaurant in Monte Carlo, accompanied by his friends, among whom was a very young lady named Suzette. Who she was to the prince, alas, is unknown. Perhaps she was his niece, perhaps his goddaughter, and possibly his illegitimate daughter ... The honor of serving such important guests fell to fifteen-year-old Henry Charpentier, a waiter's assistant. One of the dishes that Henry had to serve to the guests was pancakes. All that was required of Charpentier was to bring the finished pancakes to the table, but first warm them up in a sauce that consisted of orange peel, sugar and a combination of spirits. Suddenly the sauce caught fire and the pancakes flambéed. By a lucky chance, Charpentier became the discoverer of a new sensational taste. The prince and his guests were so delighted with the dessert that Edward inquired about the name of the dish. “Princess pancakes,” Henry said, stunned, and that was the first thing that came to his mind. ""Princess"? Edward was surprised. “Can we name them after our beautiful Lady Suzette?” How could one refuse a future king? The next day, young Charpentier received a package from the Prince of Wales. It contained a jeweled ring, a cane and a hat. One day, Louis XIV was served the wine of his beloved Jean-Paul Chenet for dinner. The wine was excellent, but the bottle was a little crooked. The king got angry and ordered the winemaker to be taken to the Louvre. - What?! Why is she crooked? Ludovic asked, pointing his finger at the crooked bottle. - She's not curvy. She is straight, but bows before the splendor of Your Majesty, - the resourceful winemaker answered. “Yes, indeed, it reminds me of the bow of my lovely ladies-in-waiting,” said the Sun King. “My God, what’s with that dent?” Jean-Paul answered without hesitation: - Don't your maids of honor leave dents on the puffy skirts from your gentle touches? The king laughed and ordered the resourceful winemaker to be rewarded. Since then, all the wines of Jean-Paul Chenet are bottled with a slightly curved neck.
Dried tomatoes were first preserved in oil in southern Italy, and now they can be found almost all over the world. For canning, tomatoes are cut, salted and dried in the sun so that all the moisture is gone from them, and the flavor becomes more intense. Dried tomatoes are poured with vegetable oil and spices.
Few people today know that real borscht is a stew made from cow parsnip, a plant that most people today consider weedy. It was a decoction of hogweed on beet kvass that was called borscht in the old days. So we owe the appearance of one of the most beloved dishes to the weed.
The name "cheesecake", apparently, comes from the word "vatra", which in most Slavic languages ​​means "fire", "hearth". Indeed, such a name is the best fit for a round open pie, shaped like a sun. After all, it was the hearth for the ancient peoples that was the symbol of this luminary.
Healthy recipes from cookbooks written in the plains turn out to be harmful in the mountains, and vice versa. The food prepared by the inhabitants of the plains from books compiled by the mountaineers is boiled. At the same time, the inhabitants of the mountains would have to eat undercooked food if they cooked strictly according to the recipes written by those who live on the plains. This is due to the difference in atmospheric pressure, which causes water to boil in the mountains at a lower temperature. Touted as a hangover cure, menudo soup is actually especially popular in Mexico on New Year's Eve morning. It is brewed from beef stomach and veal legs, green chilies, peeled corn kernels and seasonings. It is usually garnished with lime wedges, chopped chili and onion in large quantities, and served with hot tortillas. Chrysanthemum - a sacred flower in China and Japan - is edible. Elegant desserts from chrysanthemum petals are prepared in both countries: fresh petals are dipped in a mixture of beaten eggs and flour, listened to and dipped in hot oil, after which the petals are thrown back onto paper so that it absorbs excess oil. In Japan, chrysanthemums were divided into edible and bitter (medicinal). This plant has a lot of B vitamins, ascorbic acid, carotenes, mineral salts, simple and complex carbohydrates, and a large amount of protein, especially in the leaves. The potato was the first vegetable to experience weightlessness - it was grown on the Columbia spacecraft in October 1995.
The English name for cranberry (Cranberry) in translation means "crane berry". This name was given to cranberries by American settlers. Long, thin cranberry flowers reminded the settlers of the head and beak of a crane. In Russia, it was also called stonefly, crane, snowdrop.
Banana is a berry. The banana plant is the largest plant without a hard stem. The stalk of banana grass sometimes reaches 10 meters in height, and 40 centimeters in diameter. As a rule, 300 fruits with a total weight of 500 kg hang on one such stalk. Bananas are almost one and a half times more nutritious than potatoes, and dried bananas have five times more calories than raw ones. One banana contains up to 300 mg of potassium, which helps fight high blood pressure and strengthens the heart muscle. Each of us needs 3 or 4 g of potassium per day.
Neil Armstrong's first moon dinner was a roast turkey in a bag. Before thermometers were invented, brewers had to dip their thumbs into the brewing beer to determine the right temperature to add yeast. Too cold and the yeast won't work. Too hot and the yeast will die. This is where the term "rule of thumb" comes from.
According to legend, Maslenitsa was the daughter of Santa Claus and lived in the North. The fragile girl Shrovetide met a man. He saw her hiding behind huge snowdrifts and asked her to help people tired of the long winter - to warm and cheer them up. Maslenitsa agreed and, turning into a healthy, ruddy woman, with laughter, dancing and pancakes, she made the human race forget about the winter storm. Avocados do not ripen on a tree - they must be plucked and left to lie down to be edible. The tree is actually used as a warehouse - an avocado can be on the tree for several months after ripening.
Catherine de Medici (1519 - 1589) brought Italian peas to France (along with other cooks) when she married Henry II. Thanks to her, green peas - "petits pois" - became a delicacy in France. Chinese doctors use mango to treat dysentery.

Throughout the history of its existence, people have always done 3 things - get married, die and eat. And interesting facts about food during this time, a lot has accumulated. Here is some of them:

1. In 16th century England the most trendy dish among the aristocracy and golden youth was "surprise pie". When such a cake was cut at feasts in front of guests, live birds flew out of it!

Modern pie without surprises,

2. Cheese is recognized as the most desirable food for thieves around the world. It is stolen from stores most often.

3. Until 2011, Russian law referred beer and all drinks in which less than 10 degrees are non-alcoholic.

4. Bananas, like watermelons, are actually berries. But strawberries - no! This is a flower bed. And about the banana: the banana plant is a giant grass, and bananas are its berries. By definition, a berry is "a soft, juicy fruit containing several seeds." And a grass is "a plant with a fleshy, but not woody stem, which, after the plant has flowered and produced seeds, dies down to the ground."

Banana ice cream with raspberries

5. The sandwich was invented by a man named Earl Sandwich. He was an avid poker player and refused to leave the poker table for food.

6. Are you for real you can hear the rhubarb growing! W The sound comes from the opening buds. It is said that during the growing season, rhubarb constantly squeaks.

7. Big bag of pistachios(as well as any large number of these nuts) may ignite at any moment.

Salad with pistachios

8. Peanut butter can be made not only sandwiches and snacks, but also diamonds! According to one hypothesis, diamonds are formed from carbon under very high pressure. Almost all foods contain carbon, so researchers at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut, the Bayerisches Geoinstitut, have managed to create an artificial diamond in the laboratory from ordinary peanut butter. It can be obtained from any oil, even from the one you usually have for breakfast. And then, in the usual way, the diamond turns into a diamond!

9. Mushrooms cannot be overcooked.

10. Loud music can make you drink more and more often.

Whiskey

11. Lobsters and oysters were once food proletariat.

12. Fruit stickers are actually edible. Manufacturers claim all stickers are made from edible paper. And the adhesive on the sticker is edible. Similar paper is also used as a decoration for cakes.

13. Astronaut John Young dropped a bean and beef sandwich into outer space in 1965.

Sandwich

14. If there were no flies, there would be no chocolate.. Everything good in life has to be paid for. Chocolate midges have long been fond of pollinating cocoa trees, and carry pollen from one plant to another. When cocoa beans are harvested, insects are also partly included in the crop.

15. In the Middle Ages hot pepper was such an expensive and valuable commodity that it accepted as payment for loans and taxes.

Food is one of the most important parts of our lives, it is at the heart of Maslow's pyramid and is one of the most interesting topics for discussion. To understand food better, you need to familiarize yourself with a huge number of facts about food.

Probably one of the most popular and full of various myths about food is proper nutrition. For example, there is a huge amount of information about which you did not even know and imagine. Our article is a collection of a wide variety of facts not only about food, but also about its history and the origin of many products and dishes.

website prepared for you 60 interesting facts about food, with which you will be able to make the right diet, learn a lot of new dishes and products from around the world.

Food Fact #1

Have you often seen fruit stickers? Did you know they are edible. The FDA recommends washing fruit thoroughly, but says nothing about stickers.

Food Fact #2

A slice of pizza is healthier for breakfast than cereal with milk. An American nutritionist came to this conclusion, arguing that pizza has a much more healthy protein, unlike cereal.

Food Fact #3

According to Harvard School research, people who eat spicy foods live longer.

Food Fact #4

It will be more useful to eat canned fish than stew.

Food Fact #5

If you put tomatoes in the refrigerator, they will lose their taste.

Food Fact #6

Lemon contains 30% more sugar than strawberries.

Food Fact #7

The shelf life of milk does not depend on preservatives, but on whether it is pasteurized or not.

Food Fact #8

Kefir helps with a hangover not because it contains alcohol.

Food Fact #9

The best way to cook food while preserving all its useful properties is the microwave oven.

Food Fact #10

True, many foods should not be heated in the microwave. For example, small berries. So the grapes will explode with the formation of an explosive ball of plasma.

Food Fact #11

The real color of salmon is bright red due to the large amount of shrimp in its diet. On the farm, it has a whiter tint, so it is sometimes tinted.

Food Fact #12

The yolk is more useful than the protein.

Food Fact #13

If you eat a lot of nutmeg, then hallucinations may begin.

Food Fact #14

The demand for wasabi is so high that almost everywhere they sell its fake: a mixture of horseradish, mustard and dyes.

Food Fact #15

Bulgarian pepper contains an average of 150 mg of vitamin C, and orange contains about 70 mg, which is almost two times less.

Food Fact #16

The smell of chocolate calms the central nervous system.

Food Fact #17

Chocolate is a good remedy for treating and preventing coughs.

Food Fact #18

Imitation diamonds are made from peanut butter.

Food Fact #19

Red food coloring is obtained from cochineal beetles.

Food Fact #20

There is no difference between sea salt and edible salt.

Food Fact #21

In the ancient civilizations of Mexico and South Africa, chocolate was a real currency.

Food Fact #22

The Maya and Aztecs used cocoa beans as money.

Food Fact #23

McDonald's sells 80 hamburgers per second.

Food Fact #24

In the 19th century, tomatoes were used as a medicine.

Food Fact #25

Bananas are the best berry to lose weight and fight depression.

Food Fact #26

The largest apple weighed 1.875 kg.

Food Fact #27

To check the authenticity of pearls, put them in vinegar. If it does not dissolve, then it is fake.

Food Fact #28

Beetroot water is an excellent remedy for dandruff.

Food Fact #29

Nitroglacerin is the main component of dynamite, which is obtained from peanuts.

Food Fact #30

Italians believe that the taste depends on the shape of the pasta.

Food Fact #31

Greek yogurt holds the record for protein content.

Food Fact #32

The first dish cooked in the microwave is popcorn.

Food Fact #33

Canned peaches are the first fruit eaten on the moon.

Food Fact #34

Chicken soup was used as an aphrodisiac in the Middle Ages.

Food Fact #35

Chicken has changed its composition over the past 50 years. Previously, it had less fat and more protein.

Food Fact #36

Garlic repels mosquitoes.

Food Fact #37

Over the past half century, the products have significantly reduced their useful properties.

Food Fact #38

There is no expiration date for just one product - honey. It licked for more than 3,000 years in the pyramid and remained edible without losing its beneficial properties.

Food Fact #39

Bananas have a favorite smell for mosquitoes.

Food Fact #40

The world's first soup was made over 5,000 years ago and its main ingredient was a hippopotamus.

Food Fact #41

Food coloring can induce physical activity.

Food Fact #42

Bananas are berries.

Food Fact #43

The biggest dish is a fried camel, it is stuffed with rams, which are stuffed with chickens, which are stuffed with fish, which in turn are stuffed with eggs.

Food Fact #44

Popsicles were discovered by accident by an American who left a stick in his juice frozen overnight.

Food Fact #45

Coconut water can be used as blood.

Food Fact #46

In ancient Greece, the owner of the house was the first to drink wine in order to show that it was not poisoned.

Food Fact #47

Banana grows on grass, not on a tree.

Food Fact #48

Scandinavians have a large number of rotten fish dishes in their culture.

Food Fact #49

Initially, borscht was cooked from borscht.

Food Fact #50

In Japan, it is customary to slurp during a feast.

Interesting facts about food in different countries

Food Fact #51

Over time, the Japanese have developed microorganisms in their stomachs that better dissolve seafood.

Food Fact #52

In Kazakhstan, it is customary to pour tea little by little to dear guests, thereby showing that you are not too lazy to look after them.

Food Fact #53

In China, they do not cut noodles, as they are a symbol of longevity.

Food Fact #54

For foreigners, kvass tastes like “strange muddy slurry”.

Food Fact #55

In Chile, it is not customary to eat with your hands at all. This is considered very bad manners.

Food Fact #56

There is an ice cream graveyard in the United States of America.

Food Fact #57

On the island of Fije, veal is cooked in a pig. After not feeding her for a week, she is given a piece of veal and after a while is sent for slaughter.

Food Fact #58

In Georgia, wine is drunk only in one gulp and to the bottom.

Food Fact #59

In France, it is bad taste to eat bread before the main course.

Food Fact #60

During the time of Ivan the Terrible, pork was smuggled into Muslim countries inside.

Some of the weirdest and most interesting food facts you probably never knew.

Green, yellow, and red bell peppers are not actually the same vegetable.

These vegetables are not always the same plant. Although some green peppers are unripe red peppers; green, yellow, orange and red peppers are all unique plants with their own seeds.

A typical corncob has an even number of rows.


Corn cobs have an even number of rows, usually 16.

One cutlet contains meat from different cows


The ground beef we buy at the supermarket is from an unknown collection of meat from different cows.

White chocolate isn't really chocolate.


Despite its name, white chocolate does not actually contain any real chocolate ingredients. It consists of a blend of sugar, dairy, vanilla, lecithin and cocoa butter - no chocolate solids.

Fruit candies and cars are covered with the same type of wax


Have you ever wondered how gummy candies get that glossy sheen? They are coated with carnauba wax, the same wax used on cars to make them shine.

Ripe cranberries will bounce like rubber balls


Cranberries are commonly referred to as "jumping berries" because they bounce when they're ripe. In fact, jumping cranberries are a common maturity test for farmers and consumers alike.

Farm raised salmon is naturally white and then dyed pink


While wild salmon are naturally pink due to the high amount of shrimp in their diet, farmed salmon eat differently. To achieve this pleasing pink color, farmers add carotenoids (plant pigments) to the feed to mimic the natural color of wild salmon.

Potatoes can absorb and reflect Wi-Fi signals.


When Boeing wanted to test their wireless signals on new aircraft in 2012, they placed giant piles of potatoes on the seats. Due to their high water content and chemical composition, potatoes absorb and reflect radio and wireless signals, just as humans do.

The red food coloring used in the candy is made from boiled beetles.


Carmine, also known as carminic acid, is a common red food coloring found in candy and even lipstick.
Carminic acid is obtained from the crushed carcasses of the beetle known as Dactylopius.

Raw oysters are still alive when you eat them.


Chances are raw oysters are still alive when you eat them. Oysters decompose so quickly that cooks have to cook them very quickly - while they are still alive. Some varieties of clams can survive up to two weeks without water, so oysters are kept under highly regulated conditions. Once they die, they are dangerous to eat.
So yes: if you have a good plate of fresh oysters, you'll probably be munching on them while they're still alive. Luckily, oysters don't have a central nervous system, so they don't feel pain.

Every banana you eat is a clone.


Even though there are 1,000 varieties of bananas worldwide, the common yellow fruits you see in the supermarket are genetic clones of the Cavendish variety. 'Cavendish' has no seeds - a desirable trait for consumers - and survives longer than its banana relatives.
Since the Cavendish does not have seeds, farmers must clone it in order to continue production. Recently, scientists have been concerned that the lack of genetic diversity could soon make the banana vulnerable and lead to its extinction.

Grapes will explode if you put them in the microwave.


The grape itself then acts as an antenna and conducts electricity in the microwave, turning into small fireballs.

Everyone knows that a person cannot live without food. Food is an integral part of every person's life. There are such extraordinary dishes and products in the world that each of us might not even know about. Interesting facts about food are the secrets of cooking, the specifics of cultivation, and the origins of products and dishes.

1. Soup "swallow's nest", which is very popular in China, is made from nests of swifts.

2. Champagne in a glass starts to foam due to dirt.

3. Fructose is a key ingredient in male sperm.

4. From a technical point of view, coffee is considered fruit juice.

5. Onions are not endowed with taste, only smell.

6. Cucumbers are 95% liquid.

7. Having drunk 100 cups of coffee in 4 hours, you can die.

8. On average, people spend about 5 years of their lives eating food.

9. Approximately 100 varieties of cabbage are found throughout the world.

10. Until recently, "sushi" was not called a dish, but a certain way of preserving fish.

11. Mandarin essential oil can improve your mood.

12. Macadamia is the most expensive nut in the world.

13. In addition to yellow bananas, red bananas are considered popular.

14. Salo did not come from Ukraine, but from Italy.

15. From coconuts you can create an environmentally friendly fuel, which can be an alternative to gasoline.

16. Cheese was first mentioned in an ancient Egyptian papyrus, since that time the appearance of the cheese has not changed in any way.

17. There are approximately 10,000 varieties of grapes in the world.

18. Dates take first place among all existing sweets. They contain approximately 80% sugar.

19. Bananas attract mosquitoes, so when going to the river, you should not eat them.

20. Today, chickens contain 200 times more fat than they contained 40 years ago.

21. In order to quickly lose unnecessary calories after eating fast food, you will have to run for about 8 hours.

22. In Japan, beer is considered a national drink.

23. In the magazine "Mistress" for 1902, it was possible to publish a recipe for making scrambled eggs from 5 thousand eggs.

24. A person who regularly eats chocolate and soon stops eating this product will experience “withdrawal”.

25. Sex and food have always been linked into a single concept. That is why products that look like genitals can cause sexual desire.

26. Caramel was invented by the Arabs, and once upon a time it was used as a means for depilation.

27. In ancient times, drinking fresh milk was considered a luxury, because it was difficult to keep it.

28. Beans in ancient times were considered symbols of the embryo.

29. Approximately 27 million Europeans eat at McDonald's every day.

30. Neil Armstrong ate a turkey as his first meal on the moon.

31. A huge number of food additives that are endowed with a bright color cause overexcitability.

32. Grapes in the microwave can explode.

33. President Richard Nils's favorite drink is a dry martini.

34. Those people who drink coffee and have sex are much more likely to enjoy themselves than those who do not drink coffee at all.

35. Mango has been known to people for more than 4 thousand years.

36. The appearance of blue cheese is associated with a legend when a shepherd chased a beautiful girl and left his breakfast in a cave.

37. In Spain in the 9th century, it was popular to eat whale tongue.

38. Eskimos know how to make wine for their seagulls.

39. Until now, it is not known who inspired the creation of donuts.

40. In the 19th century in the UK, they cooked turtle soup, which was created from cow embryos.

41. Much more soy sauce is exported in the Netherlands than in Japan.

42. From the potatoes that were brought to the states, they first created a dessert dish.

43. In the Maldives, Coca-Cola is made from sea water.

44. In Asia, about 4 million cats are eaten annually.

45. In Saudi Arabia, it is forbidden to eat nutmeg because it can cause hallucinations.

46. ​​A banana tree is actually not a tree, but a huge grass.

47. In Eastern countries, ketchup was originally invented as an addition to fish.

48. In Japan and Sicily, hedgehog caviar is a fairly popular dish.

49. An omelette is sold in New York, the cost of which is $ 1,000.

50. Apple seeds contain cyanide.

51. Peanuts are used in the process of making dynamite.

52. Strawberries are considered the only fruit in which the bones are placed on the outside.

53. Honey has been produced by bees for 150 million years.

54. Drinking 0.5 liters of sweet soda every day, you can become 31% fatter.

55. Calvados is called apple vodka.

57. About 44 billion instant noodles are consumed by people per year.

58. In Norway, they make beer soup, which is called olebrod.

59. About 20 thousand varieties of beer drink are known in the world.

60.More than 40% of the almonds that are mined in the world are given to the production of chocolate.

61. Plombir is able to relieve fatigue and overstrain.

62. The first collection of recipes for cooking was published in 62 AD. There were dishes that Claudius liked.

63. Poisonous lead was used by the Romans as a way to sweeten food.

64. In the Scandinavian countries, it is popular to cook dishes from rotten and fermented fish.

65. The doctor, who was invited to the hopelessly ill boy, allowed him to eat whatever he wanted. The boy soon recovered completely.

66. After the advent of sugar, it was considered a luxury and it was fashionable among the princes to have black teeth.

67. The largest dish cooked in the world is a fried camel stuffed with chickens, eggs, and fish.

68. The oldest soup, which is confirmed by archaeologists, was cooked from a hippopotamus.

69. Peanut butter is a component of glycerin.

70. Average people eat about 20-25 tons of food in their entire lives.

71. In Japan, they sell ice cream that tastes like wings, a cactus, and also a buffalo tongue.

72. In Alaska, such a dish as fish heads is common.

73. In Madagascar, they eat zebra stew with the addition of tomato.

74. In Indonesia, smoked bats are sold in the middle of the streets.

75. In Spain, honey is added to human milk substitutes for newborns.

76. Cabbage was invented in China.

77. In ancient Rome, the woodpecker was considered a sacred bird, and it was strictly forbidden to eat it.

78. Grape juice contains a lacquer thinner (ethyl acetate).

79. One bottle of Coke contains the same amount of caffeine as one cup of coffee.

80. Apples help you wake up early in the morning.

81. Refined sugar is the only product in the world that does not contain any nutrients.

82. A kilo of chips is more expensive than a kilo of potatoes.

83. In Germany, you will not be able to meet fans of diet food.

84. To clean teeth in Siberia, larch resin was used.

86. In Japan, to make meat more tasty, animals are killed at night.

87. There is a restaurant in America that offers visitors to try dishes made from insects.

88. In order not to suffer from a cough, you need to eat chocolate and drink cocoa.

89. The ancient Greeks anointed their body with olive oil in order to protect their body from the effects of cancer.

90. In the 1770s, the well-known canned food in jars began to be created for the first time.

91. White wine is made from grapes of any variety and shade.

92. Every year, people eat approximately 567 billion chicken eggs.

93. Tomatoes in Russia were considered "mad berries", and they were poisonous.

94. Until now, it is not known what a pineapple is: a vegetable or a fruit.

95. Potatoes make people fat by leaps and bounds, because it has a high content of starch.

96. If you eat a piece of chocolate between main meals, your appetite will decrease significantly.

97. Italians call one strand of pasta spaghetto.

98. Black and green olives are the fruit of the same tree.

99. In the cheese, which was created in Soviet times, one could find plastic numbers.

100. With repeated daily use, salt is considered poison.

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