The food we eat every day is pretty much an essential part of our lives, yet there is a whole bunch of fascinating secrets to it we would never even imagine.
We were impressed to find out about some of these lesser-known facts that reveal a lot as to what mysteries the contents of our plates hold for us.
Peanut Butter
Scientists are able to turn peanut butter into diamonds because of its high carbon content.
Airplane Food
Airplane food isn’t very tasty because our sense of smell and taste drop by 30% when inside a pressurized cabin at high altitudes.
Cheese
Cheese is the most frequently stolen food item in the world with 4% of all cheese going missing every year.
Ketchup
Ketchup was compressed into pill form and sold as a medicine to cure diarrhoea in the 1800s.
Chocolate Bar
A 100-gram chocolate bar takes approximately 1,700 litres of water to make.
Tea Bag
Tea bags were created by accident as customers inaccurately started to use tea samples in the same way as infusers.
Potatoes
Potatoes can absorb and reflect Wi-Fi signals because of their water content and chemistry.
Sugar
Humans are genetically coded to crave sugar.
McDonald’s
McDonald’s sells an average of 75 burgers every second of every day on a global scale.
Garlic
If left directly on the skin for a prolonged period of time, garlic can cause third-degree burns because the chemicals in it are so potent.
Apple
There are so many varieties of apples known that it would take over 20 years for you to taste all of them if you ate an apple every day.
