#FoodPornFriday: 30 Random food facts

1. Ripe cranberries will bounce like rubber balls.

2. Pringles once had a lawsuit trying to prove they weren’t really potato chips.

3.An average ear of corn has an even number of rows, usually 16.

4. Apples belong to the rose family, as do pears, cherries, plums, apricots, raspberries, strawberries and peaches.

5. The most expensive pizza in the world costs $12,000 (R167 719, 80) and takes 72 hours to make.

6. Chocolate was once used as currency.

7. Humans are born craving sugar.

8. McDonald’s sells 75 hamburgers, every second of every day. That’s approximately 6.5 million a day and 2.5 billion a year.

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

10. No matter what color Fruit Loop you eat, they all taste the same.

11. Eating bananas can help fight depression, due to its high levels of tryptophan, which converts into serotonin – a type of chemical in our brain that influences mood.

12. Apples float in water,because 25% of their volume is made of air.

13. The popsicle was invented by an 11-year-old in 1905.

14. One of the most hydrating foods to eat is the cucumber,which is 96% water.

15. There are 7 500 varieties of apples grown throughout the world.

16. Carrots have zero fat content.

17. Dry swallowing one teaspoon of sugar can commonly cure hic-ups. 

18. Pearls melt in vinegar.

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

20. If you boil beetroot in water, and then massage the water into your scalp each night, it works as an effective cure for dandruff.

21. Peanuts can be used to make dynamite. Here’s how it works: they contain an oil that is used in the process of making glycerol. Glycerol is one of the main ingredients in nitroglycerin and nitroglycerin is the main part of dynamite.

22. A watermelon is over 92% water by weight.

23. Each pineapple plant only produces just one pineapple per year.

24. Canadian neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield, while operating on epilepsy patients, discovered the ‘Toast Centre’ of the human brain, which is wholly dedicated to detecting when toast is burning!

25. The world’s oldest chocolates are 106 years old. A tin of chocolates from the coronation of King Edward VII from 1902.

26. The largest item on any menu in the world is the roast camel.

27. Worcestershire sauce is made from dissolved fish.

28. If you put lemons and limes in water, lemons will float and limes will sink, because although lemons are usually bigger in size, making them typically heavier, it all comes down to density.

29. The expiration date on bottled water is actually not for the water but instead it’s for the bottle.

30. Canned peach was the first ever fruit to be eaten on the moon.