Saturday, October 2, 2010

Feeding Your Curiosity

Useless facts can be found everywhere. Admit it or not, no matter how useless the fact is, the great majority of us usually are interested in knowing about it – which is what this blog is all about. Today I will feed your curiosity by referring to some absolutely useless, totally unimportant and yet very interesting facts about a variety of foods.


Did you know that lemons contain more sugar than strawberries and that there are more than one hundred chemicals in one cup of coffee? Now, that’s a fact to tell your parents! Can you tell me which types of food are blue? Actually, there is no such thing as blue food; even blueberries are actually purple. Did you know that seaweed is one of the main ingredients in some ice-creams? I know – it seems impossible! And that vanilla is used to make chocolate? Could you have guessed that chewing gum will actually stop you from crying when you peel onions? What does the 57 in Heinz bottles mean? It actually goes back to when the company had 57 different varieties of pickles. How often do you eat hamburgers? Did you know that if you collect the same amount of pounds a car weighs in hamburgers, the pile of hamburgers will cost significantly more than the car? Aren’t you surprised to know that when you eat celeries, your body uses more calories to digest it than the calories the celery actually contains? And, finally, the fact of the day – Did you know that grapes explode when you put them in a microwave?
There you have it – useless and yet interesting facts about food!

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