By: Amit Kothiyal
Submitted: 2009-10-30 01:00:35 | Word Count: 415
There are many interesting tidbits about food. Let us read some important, informational, fun facts about the food we commonly eat.
Coffee:
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The rarest coffee is found in Indonesia and is called as Kopi Luwak. It costs $300 for a pound.
To prepare one pound roasted coffee, it takes about 20,000 coffee cherries.
Tomatoes:
On average every year each American consumes 22 pounds tomatoes.
Over half of the total tomato consumption is Tomato ketchup and sauce.
Rice:
There are more than 15,000 rice varieties present all over the world.
Cabbage:
The entire cabbage has 91 percent water content in it.
Milk:
On an average an American drinks 25 gallons milk in a year.
88 percent of the milk constitutes water whereas just 12 percent of it has a food value.
A family of four people in America consumes around 6000 pounds of food per year.
Bananas:
A banana is considered to be a great body builder. It helps in tissue building. A single banana if consumed each day will provide better health and in turn save a lot of money.
Never keep them in refrigerator.
Green bananas: cook and eat it has raw starch like potatoes.
Partially yellow bananas: cook as a dessert or as a vegetable.
Yellow banana: eat raw, can get digested now.
Yellow banana having brown freckles: best time to eat.
Highest nutrition and can be digested by people with weak digestion.
Brown with yellow freckles: can't be eaten raw. Can use in banana and bread recipes.
Miscellaneous:
In the year 1977, Americans consumed way more than 7.5 billion quarts popcorn.
Fifty gallons maple sap produces a single gallon maple sugar.
Do you know what Hushpuppies are? They are made up of small pieces of cornmeal batter that are fried and are mostly used in southern traditions. Years ago, hungry dogs were fed with fried batter, after the pieces finished the owner use to stop the dogs calling "Hush, puppies" and this is how they got their name.
Every day a bird consumes food weighing half the weight of its body. Imagine a 50 pound weighing child eating 25 pounds food daily!
In the US, farmers use about 1.5 billion pounds pesticides and half of it is in the food they eat, while just one percent of food shipment is tested. In fact, even the apple growers use around 24 types of pesticides on apples. Imagine the intake of pesticide we take each day.
Now, aren't these facts interesting?
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