- These weird food fun facts are more than interesting.
These weird food fun facts may not be what you expect. You will have to tell me the best ones in the comments!
- Bananas are berries, and strawberries aren’t berries. (They don’t meet
the botanical definition of a berry.) - Ketchup was used as a medicine in the 1800s. In the 1830s, a ketchup recipe was created to treat indigestion and diarrhea.
- Tonic water glows in the dark because of the quinine.
- “Dorito” is a Spanish word meaning “little golden things.”
- Pepperoni is the most common pizza topping. (What do you think the most hated is, pineapple?)
- Wild salmon are pink because their diet is full of fish. Did you know this as one of the weird food fun facts?
- Alaska grows the largest vegetables because of the length of the sunshine there, about 20 hours a day.
- It can take over 400 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
- An apple can stay fresh for up to a year.
- There are almost always 10 segments in an orange slice.
- Would you pay $12,000.00 for a pizza? Because that’s the cost of the most expensive pizza.
- Pretzels used to be made at weddings because they were considered a symbol of love.
- Heinz ketchup must come out of the bottle at 0.28 miles per hour before stores can sell it.
- Americans eat about 13 pounds of bananas a year.
- A grapefruit, an orange, and a tangerine made a tangelo.
- Mountain Dew contains concentrated orange juice. This has to be one of the most weird food fun facts.
- All Fruit Loops are the same flavor, regardless of the color.
- Up to 100 cows can contribute to a single fast-food burger.
- People used pepper to pay their taxes during the Middle Ages.
- Green gummy bears are not apple flavored, they’re strawberry flavored.
- The main ingredient in food dyes are crushed beetles.
- Most ears of corn have 16 rows of kernels.
- The first ice cream came from fifth century B.C., making it thousands of years old.
- When it comes to pasta, there is literally a shape for everyone. There are more than 600 shapes of pasta.
- Blueberries were once called “star berries” due to the star shape on one end.
- Add a can of white full sugar soda to a bouquet of flower and they will live for about
two weeks - Don’t put grapes in the microwave, they will explode.
- A tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.
- One billion gallons of ice cream are made in America every year.
- Cashews are technically seeds, not nuts.
- People eat dried ants at the movies instead of popcorn in Columbia.
- There are over 3,000 types of pears. Did you know about this many varieties as one of the weird food fun facts?
- We can thank ancient Mayan and Aztec cultures for hot chocolate.
- Radishes were used as currency to pay employees in ancient Egypt.
- There are almost 10,000 types of apples.
- If you’re allergic to papaya, you probably have an allergy to latex as well, and vice versa.
- Corn tortillas have been around since before flour tortillas.
- White chocolate does not contain any chocolate.
- Cheese is the most stolen food in the world.
- Cotton candy was invented by a doctor.
- One in four hazelnuts ends up in Nutella.
- Chocolate was money for ancient civilizations.
- 20 million hot dogs are eaten each year by Americans.
- Pepper is the world’s most sold spice.
- Bird saliva is a delicacy in China.
- Deadly cyanide can be found in pits of cherries, peaches, plums, and nectarines.
- Chinese, Arab, and Egyptian people made the first lollipops thousands of years ago.
What do you think of these 47 weird food fun facts? Make sure you leave all your favorites in the comments!