Yiyeceklerle ilgili ilginç gerçekler - Intreresting facts about food

Birds eat half their own body weight in food each day! So, why do people say that a poor eater "eats like a bird"?

Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.

Lemonscontainmore sugar than strawberries.

Table salt is the onlycommoditythat hasn't risendramaticallyin price in the last 150 years.

Beer is made by fermentation caused by bacteriafeedingonyeastcellsand thendefecating. In other words , it's a nice tall glass of bacteriadoo-doo.

Grapesexplodewhen you put them in the microwave.

There are more than 15,000 different kinds of rice.

When it originallyappearedin 1886 - Coca Cola wasbilledas an "EsteemedBrain Tonic and IntellectualBeverage".

Coffee originated from the Arabic word "qahwah'.

Almondare members of the peach family.

Thewheatthat produces a one-pound loaf of bread (454 grams)require2 tons of water to grow.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s asmedicine.

There are professional teatastersas well aswine tasters.

Thin-skinnedlemons are the juiciest.

Theeggplantis part of thethistlefamily.

Honey is the only food that does notspoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptianpharaohshas been tasted by archaeologists and foundedible.

Apple is made of 25% air, that is why theyfloat.