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Fuente: http://www.eatandbemerryblog.com/2013/03/interesting-food-facts.html#!/2013/03/interesting-food-facts.html

Interesting Food Facts

Did you know???

Cucumber seeds give you heartburn and cucumbers give you gas

If you are only going to use half of a pepper, cut it in half and the leave the portion with the top on that you are not using. The stem will keep the leftover pepper fresh 3-4x longer

Baskin Robbins once made ketchup-flavored ice cream.

A typical banana travels 4,000 miles before being eaten. Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year.

The Incas measured time by how long it took a potato to cook.
Potato chips are the biggest selling snack food in the U.S. and Canada.
In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded gold for potatoes.

The white potato originated in the Andes mountains and was probably brought to Britain by Sir Francis Drake about 1586.

Honey is the only food edible to humans that will never go bad. They have found edible forms of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs.

Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries

Avocados are native to Central and South America, where they have been cultivated for over 10,000 years.
Another name for the avocado is the "alligator pear," so-called because of its alligator skin texture and pear shape.
The Aztec word for avocado was ahuacatl, which means "testicle tree".
Did you know that avocados are actually a fruit?

Fast food restaurants use yellow, red, and orange because those are the colors that stimulate hunger.

There are over 1000 different kids of apples. Apples are also more proficient at waking you up in the morning than coffee.

:Did you know that in Japan, the most popular topping for pizza at Domino’s Pizza is Squid?

Cherries are a member of the rose family

They have square watermelons in Japan because they stack better

Original Coca Cola was green!

Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. How do they find this stuff out?!

Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.

Most ice cream is eaten between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. In 1904, the ice cream cone was invented.
Alaskans eat twice as much ice cream per capita than the rest of the nation.