Yahoo Lifestyle 50 Mind-Blowing Facts About Food That Sound Like They're Big Huge Lies But Are Actually Completely, Totally, 100% True
1. A strawberry isn't a berry but a banana is.
2. Avocados and watermelon are berries, too.
3. Cashews grow on trees like this:
4. And Brussels sprouts grow in long stalks like this:
5. Chocolate milk was invented in Ireland.
6. Ketchup used to be sold as medicine.
7. American Froot Loops and Froot Loops from other countries are totally different colors:
This is due to regulations elsewhere concerning food additives and coloring.
8. McDonald's sells 75 hamburgers every second of every day.
9. Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same thing.
10. Ripe cranberries will bounce like rubber balls.
11. An average ear of corn has an even number of rows, usually 16.
12. You can tell the difference between cheap pasta and expensive pasta by looking at them:
On the left is the cheaper pasta, on the right the expensive pasta.
13. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
14. Honey never spoils. You can eat 32,000-year-old honey.
15. Peanuts are not nuts. They grow in the ground like this, so they are legumes.
16. Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is.
17. Coconuts kill more people than sharks every year. So do cows.
18. Pound cake got its name from its original recipe, which called for a pound each of butter, eggs, sugar, and flour.
19. This is what the inside of a bag of microwave popcorn looks like:
20. The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur is almost 100%.
21. This is what olive oil looks like after it's pressed from olives:
22. Honey is made from nectar and bee vomit.
23. White bell peppers exist:
24. This is what a pineapple that has flowered looks like:
26. And artichokes are flowers that are eaten as buds. This is what they look like when flowered:
27. This is what a store-bought egg looks like compared with an egg bought at a farmers market:
28. "Spam" is short for spiced ham.
29. Popsicles were invented by an 11-year-old in 1905.
30. Do not adjust your mobile phone. Avocados can actually be this huge:
This type of avo is a Yucatan butter avocado. Apparently, it tastes "weirdly watery and green."
31. Apples, like pears and plums, belong to the rose family.
32. The official state VEGETABLE of Oklahoma is the watermelon.
33. Emu eggs look like something straight out of Game of Thrones:
34. This is how much meat one single cow produces:
35. Peas are one the most popular pizza toppings in Brazil:
36. This is what a peeled lime looks like:
37. McDonald's restaurants in France serve something called the McBaguette:
It's basically two hamburger patties and all the classic toppings you'd expect on a baguette. What a world.
38. There are over 7,500 varieties of apples throughout the world, and it would take you 20 years to try them all if you had one each day.
39. The twists in pretzels are made to look like arms crossed in prayer.
40. Bottles of soda look adorable before they get blown up with compressed air:
41. This is what a "fresh cup" of banana juice looks like:
42. Canola oil was originally called rapeseed oil, but renamed by the Canadian oil industry in 1978 to avoid negative connotations. "Canola" is short for "Canadian oil."
43. Some chickens lay eggs with white yolks:
It all depends on what you feed a chicken.
44. This is what a "modern" tomato looks like next to a tomato grown with 150-year-old seeds:
45. Speaking of which, this 17th-century painting by Giovanni Stanchi shows what the inside of a watermelon looked like in the 1600s, before selective breeding:
46. No matter what color Froot Loop you eat, they all taste the same.
47. The Babybel cheese in France is GIGANTIC:
48. Some vegan chicken wings have little wooden "bones" in them:
49. A lot of soda cans in Hawaii still have ridges at the top:
This is because of the plant they're made in.
50. And finally, you know what the Germans call a Quarter Pounder With Cheese? A Royal Käse:
Looks like a tasty burger.
