You think you know food? Maybe, but you don’t know food like this. These random food facts will completely blow your mind. Here are some facts about your favorite foods that you never knew.
1) Corn Used to Be A Lot Smaller
It could fit in the palm of your hand and has grown larger over time through artificial selection.
2) Mountain Dew is Made With Orange Juice
It’s mostly just carbonated water, lots of sugar, and orange juice.
3) Altitude Changes Your Sense of Taste
Our sense of taste can decrease by 30 percent at high altitudes which can be attributed to a decreased sense of smell.
4) Figs Have Bugs in Them
Some species of fig trees rely on wasps for pollination and their fig fruits end up containing actual pieces of wasps in them. Mmmm, waspy!
5) There Are No Such Thing As Baby Carrots
They are just regular carrots shaved down to a smaller size.
6) Diamonds Can Be Made From Peanut Butter
Scientists are doing to this to help discover how life evolved on this planet.
7) Cabbage, Kale, Collards, Cauliflower, Romanesco, Broccoli, Kohlrabi and Brussels Sprouts Are One in the Same
They are just different varieties of the same plant that have different traits like flower buds, large leaves, edible stems, etc.
8) Apple Seeds Contain Cyanide
But you would need to eat about 200 apple seeds or 20 apple cores for it to be fatal.
9) Potatoes Are Mostly Water
They are 80 percent water and about 20 percent solid.
10) Bananas Are Berries
True berries are simple fruits that come from one flower with one ovary and usually have several seeds, so a banana is technically a berry.
11) Strawberries and Raspberries Aren’t Berries
At least not in the botanical sense because they are derived from a single flower with MORE than one ovary. This makes them an aggregate fruit.
12) Haribo’s Green Gummy Bears Aren’t Lime or Green Apple
They are actually strawberry flavored.
13) Our DNA is Almost Half of That of a Banana
We are 60 percent genetically similar.
14) Shredded Cheese Contains Sawdust
Well, sort of. It contains cellulose which is essentially wood pulp. Well, sort of. Cellulose is considered “wood pulp” because manufacturers grind up wood to extract cellulose from.
15) Mangos Can Cause Skin Burns
Mango juice that is combined with the sun can cause a chemical burn this is because mango sap is very acidic.
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