FOOD FACTS
A horn worm can eat an entire tomato plant by itself in one day!
Why onions make us cry?
Cutting onions releases a gas which causes a stinging sensation when it comes into contact with your eyes. Your body produces tears to dilute the irritant and remove it from your eyes.
How can you avoid it?
Fried tarantulas, Cambodia
They were first discovered by starving Cambodians in the bloody, brutal days of the Khmer Rouge rule and have gone from being the vital sustenance of these people to a delicacy tourists come far and wide to try.
Not all the apples are like these:
Look these ones! Rose apple (South Asia): It smells and tastes a lot like roses. Sugar Apple (Noi-na) (Thailand)
Why carbonated beverages are called “soft drinks” ?
It was referred to all beverages that did not contain significant amounts of alcohol (hard drinks).
Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries!
Funny experiment with a soft drink:
Carrots used to be purple before the 17th century.
Carrots can help you see in the dark.
Shredded Wheat was the first cereal ever produced.
Half of the world’s population live on a staple diet of rice.
When a source of Vitamin C (orange, lemon, grapefruit, strawberry, tomato, potato, etc.) is eaten with meat or cooked dry beans, the body makes better use of the iron in the protein food.
It Takes 3500 Calories To Make A Pound Of Fat!
The Average Person Eats Almost 1500 Pounds Of Food A Year!
Eskimo ice cream (akutaq) from Alaska is neither icy, or creamy !
There are about 100,000 bacteria in one liter of drinking water
You're More Likely To Be Hungry If You're Cold!
Berries (blue or blackberries) AKUTAQ RECIPE Ingredients 1 large whitefish Vegetable Shortening Sugar Berries (blue or blackberries) Boil whitefish until done, Debone all fish and squeeze all liquid from fish so it's dry and fluffy, Then add the shortening and stir it in well. Then add sugar to taste. Add berries, Keep cool or freeze.
Only food that does not spoil: honey !!! “Sugar, ahhh honey honey you are my candy girl and you got me wanting you.”