Food Facts for Life | Fun Facts About Food

Today we are going to learn facts about food! Woohoo! Food Facts for Life! Fun Facts About Food!

Well what is Food? By definition Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism. Food is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. Now let’s look at the top 10 facts about food.

Number 10 Cucumbers are mostly water. So if you are ever thirsty grab a cucumber instead since it is 96 percent water.

Number 9 McDonald’s sells 2.5 billion hamburgers every year. That equates to 75 McDonald’s hamburgers sold every second, every day, or 6.5 million hamburgers each day!

Number 8 White chocolate isn’t chocolate. So its name is deceiving, because white chocolate doesn’t have any components of regular chocolate. It’s really just a mixture of sugar, milk, vanilla, lecithin, and cocoa butter.

Number 7 Expiration dates on bottled water have nothing to do with the water. Water can’t expire but the bottle it’s in can. Plastic bottles will eventually start leaking chemicals into the water.

Number 6 The Three Musketeers doesn’t live up to its name. The famous Three Musketeers candy bar originally had vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate flavors in one! However, during World War II, they changed to only chocolate due to rations.

Number 5 Froot Loops are all the same flavor. As colorful as they are, you’d think they were flavored accordingly! But no, all Froot Loops are all the same flavor.

Number 4 Almonds aren't nuts Almonds are seeds, not nuts. According to the Plant Information Center, nuts are "a one-seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit with a hard pericarp, usually derived from a one-loculed ovary " but an almond is actually a "drupe."

Number 3 On Sesame Street, Cookie Monster's cookies are actually painted rice cakes.

Number 2
Your Food Is Allowed To Contain Trace Of Insects The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allows for “natural defects” in food products, meaning your food can legally contain traces of stuff that you probably don’t want to be swallowing like insects

Number 1
Humans share 60% of our DNA with bananas
Our bodies have 3 billion genetic building blocks and only a very tiny amount of those are unique, meaning most people are mostly alike. What’s even more surprising? We have a lot in common with the things around us, including 60% identical genes as a simple banana.

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