8 Helpful Food Facts!

• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
• The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, and more vitamin c than oranges.
• Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.
• The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eats 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year.
• The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds!
• Cranberry Jell-O is the only kind that contains real fruit.
• The green stuf on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
• America’s best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.

OK, so maybe only one of those facts was actually helpful (the first one, in case you were having trouble). The rest were very interesting though!

~ by zachary wood on March 5, 2007.