- Unless you do know some of these wacky facts.
These are the most random odd facts about food you’re every gonna read. Make sure you read the fact about gum. ((Puke.))
- Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were something soldiers ate a lot in World War II.
- One 12-ounce container of peanut butter uses 540 peanuts.
- Honey Nut Cheerios don’t actually have nuts but instead contain almond flavoring.
- The same food will taste different if you’re eating it at home or on an airplane.
- It’s popular in China to give the gift of a watermelon.
- Rhubarb grows so quickly you can literally hear it. Not the same as “watching” the grass grow, is it?
- Nutmeg can cause hallucinations in high doses. Did you know this as one of the most random fun facts?
- How much would you pay for a cantaloupe? Because if you want to buy a Yubari King cantaloupe, you’re gonna need $27,000.00 to do it.
- Do you know the first food ever eaten in space? It was applesauce.
- Your skin may turn orange if you eat an overabundance of carrots.
- Pineapples are called such because of people who thought the fruit looked like pinecones.
- It may surprise you to know that the most popular meat in the world is goat meat.
- Raspberries technically belong to the rose family.
- An authentic pound cake contains one pound of each ingredient in its recipe.
- Green beans have tiny hairs to trap bugs. As my favorite vegetable, I’m not sure how I feel about this.
- One of the ingredients in dynamite are peanuts.
- Junk food costs about 10x less than healthy food does.
- The main ingredient in jelly is fruit juice while the main ingredient in jam is fruit.
- Fortune cookies originated in San Francisco, not China.
- The biggest tomato grown was eight pounds.
- Honey can technically never spoil because of its sugar content.
- In water, limes sink but lemons float. This is one of the craziest and most interesting of the most random odd facts on this list.
- Donkey milk cheese can cost up to $1000 a pound and it’s called Pule.
- An average person will consume about 3,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches throughout their life.
- Mac and cheese came to America via Thomas Jefferson.
- Gum has been around for 9,000 years but was once made out of natural tree resin and sap but is now made out of a synthetic gum base, which is a blend of synthetic polymers, plastics, and other ingredients, along with sweeteners and flavorings. Bleh! This has got to be the worst thing you’ve read all day. No more gum sounds about right.
- French fries are actually from Belgium, not France.
- Pumpkin pie has been around since the year 1623, meaning it’s over 400 years old!
- Pasta has been around for thousands of years and people have been eating it.
- The fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth is called arachibutyrophobia.
- Bees have a second stomach where they collect the nectar called their crop, and from the crop, they puke the nectar into the hives.
- 2.5 billion hamburgers are sold at McDonald’s every year.
- Corn is an ingredient in some fireworks.
- Strawberries have less sugar than lemons. Does this even seem possible to you as one of the most random odd facts about food?
- It takes about 50 licks to eat a single scoop ice cream cone.
- Americans eat 500 million pounds of peanut butter every year.
- Not that you should eat them, but the stickers on fruit are considered
edible. (PSA: also full of chemicals, trust nothing and don’t eat stickers.) - About 50% of Americans eat a sandwich everyday.
- White potatoes aren’t related to sweet potatoes.
- Ripe cranberries bounce like rubber balls do. (Are you going to go buy some cranberries and test this fun fact?)
- American cheese is actually from Switzerland, not America.
- Pineapple fruits take two to three years to grow.
So what did you think about the gum fact?? Let me know what your favorite of the most random odd facts from the list.