Food Stuff

Sugar is the only taste that humans are born craving.

Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.

One of the most popular pizza toppings in Brazil is green peas.

One fast food hamburger may contain meat from 100 different cows.

Fortune cookies are not a traditional Chinese custom. They were invented in early 1900 in San Francisco.

Honeybee workers must visit 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey.

A Cinnabon' Classic has less sugar than a 20-oz. bottle of Pepsi.

Most wasabi consumed is not real wasabi, but colored horseradish.

In 2012, divers discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck that was so well preserved even the food was intact in its storage jars.

The most expensive fruit in the world is the Japanese Yubari cantaloupe, and two melons once sold at auction for $23,500.

An average person will consume 12 pubic hairs in their fast food every year!

Airplane food isn't very tasty because our sense of smell and taste decrease from 20 to 50 percent.

Cooking food is one of the great revolutionary innovations of history because it not only transformed the way we prepare food, but because it also became a center of cultural communion and organized society.

Ounce by ounce, Nutritious food costs up to 10 times more than junk food.

In 2006, Shari’s Berries pioneered the concept of delivering chocolate dipped fruits nationwide in freeze packs.

Peanuts can be used to make dynamite.

Hippocrates notes that dogs were somewhat indigestible while boiled puppy was an appropriate food for invalids. Galen later notes that the meat of a young castrated dog is the best.

9th August is officially National Rice Pudding Day.

An average person in the U.S. eats 35 tons of food in a lifetime.

Food and have been linked throughout history. Some foods are thought to have sexual powers because they resemble human genitals. Casanova was said to offer oysters to his potential partners to whet their sexual appetite.

Subject...Health Food With today's adults looking for a healthier lifestyle, food and stress are very important to them. We will look first at what food can be added to our diet that will help relieve stress. The food in question, is chocolate. This overlooked food is considered unhealthy, but let's take a look. Chocolate is made from sugar and cocoa beans with the bean known as a vegetable. Sugar is derived mainly from sugar cane, this would also be in the vegetable category, thus classifying all chocolate as a vegetable. Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, and as you well know, you are encouraged to eat as much fruit as you want! To take this one step further, milk chocolate contains milk, which is dairy, therefore, chocolate, in any form, should be considered a health food. so remember...STRESSED spelled backward is... DESSERTS.