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25 interesting facts about foods

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An average person in u.s. eats 35 tons of food in a lifetime.
Pizza Hut once spent 1 million dollars to deliver pizza into space.
shoplifted food cheese is the most shoplifted food item in the world.
honey is the only food in the world that can never expire experts say you could leave a jar of honey for 3,000 years and it would still be tasty and edible.
fortune cookies,fortune cookies are not a traditional Chinese custom they were invented in the early 1900 in San Francisco.
a microwave uses more electricity over its lifespan to power its clock than it uses to heat food.
the amount of sugar an average American consumes in 5 days is more than the average American consumed an entire year 200 years ago.
In the 1800s tomato ketchup was used to treat nausea and diarrhea.
humans kill 1,776 animals for food every second.
dynamite is made with peanuts.
peanuts are not nuts they actually legumes.
most cheap store-bought honey contains no pollen it’s just a blend of additives and corn syrup.
chickens contain 266 percent more fat today than they did 40 years ago.

carrots were originally purple.
scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.
childhood food allergies cost u.s. nearly twenty-five billion dollars each year.
A plant-based vegan diet is the only thing proven to reverse heart disease which is the number one killer in u.s.a.
just thinking about food can release dopamine in your brain which is a feel-good hormone also produced during sex and drug use.
one pound of beef requires 2,500 gallons of water or the equivalent of a hundred and forty-seven days of showering.
on August 10th, 2015 NASA astronauts ate food that has been grown in space for the very first time.
49 percent of US adults eat one sandwich every day.
Octopuses are eaten alive in Korea.
100 years ago most Americans used to spend 43 percent of each day working just to get food nowadays it’s just seven percent.
In 2k12 divers discovered a two thousand year old Roman shipwreck that was so well preserved even the food was still intact in storage jars.
In the US as much as 40% of produce is never sold or eaten because is too ugly.
The average American spends seven thousand eight hundred and fifty-two dollars on food every year.