Food and Drink Facts
All kinds of facts about food and drink. Featuring a range of topics, including diet, nutrition, and food tips.
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Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
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A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.
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Americans eat nearly 100 acres of pizza every day - that's approximately 350 slices per second!.
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Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed for marketing reasons!
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The Himalayan Goji berry has more iron than steak, more vitamin C than oranges and more beta carotene than carrots.
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A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.
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There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
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Eating a banana can cheer you up!
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50% of U.S. pizzas are sold with pepperoni on them.
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Coffee beans aren't beans - they're fruit pits.
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Lima beans contain cyanide!
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All coffee is grown within 1,000 miles of the equator.
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Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish, it was created in California by Chinese immigrants.
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Dandelion root can be roasted and ground as a coffee substitute.
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A hardboiled egg will spin. An uncooked or softboiled egg will not.
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Cashew nut shells contain oil that is extremely irritating to human skin.
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More than 100 pizza box-related patents have been issued since 1976!
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