Food is something we can’t imagine of live without. We come across different kinds of food on daily basis. But do you know there are many hidden facts about food that are fascinating and definitely worthy of knowing. Below is a nice trivia list about some interesting and informative food facts:

1) An average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year. On an average, that is comprised of 150 pounds of meat, 290 pounds of milk and cream, 35 pounds of eggs, 48 pounds of chicken, 68 pounds of bread, 125 pounds of potatoes, and 80 pounds of fruit.

2) ‘Fast Food’ was even enjoyed in ancient times. The remains of fast-food shops have been found in ancient ruins! Even ancient Greeks enjoyed take-out. The only thing that is new is the mass production, standard menus and recipes of fast-food ‘chains’.

3) Salt, our taste maker and preservative, was extremely rare in the past. So rare, in fact, that it was often used as ’salary.’ and today, salt is so common that restaurants give it away for free, and packaged food contains so much that it’s far too easy to eat too much salt.

4) Sometimes frozen fruits and vegetables are more nutritious than fresh. The longer that fruits or vegetables are kept in stores to be sold or eaten, the more nutrients they lose. But fruits and vegetables grown for freezing are usually frozen right after they’re picked. Therefore, they have less time to lose their nutrients.

5) Apples, potatoes, and onions all taste the same when eaten with your nose plugged. This shows the nose plays the incredibly important part in the sense of taste. The fact that the three items have a similar consistency makes it virtually impossible to identify them without the sense of smell.

6) When an egg floats in water, it is gone rotten and should not be eaten.  When an egg is extremely fresh it will lie on its side at the bottom of a glass of water. But as it ages,gases build up inside the shell making it more buoyant and the egg will begin to point upwards, and will finally float completely when it has gone bad.

7) Vitamin A is known to prevent night blindness, and carrots are loaded with Vitamin A. One carrot provides more than 200% of recommended daily intake of Vitamin A.

8.) Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.

9) To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, traveling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.

10) Peanut oil can be processed to produce glycerol, which is then used to make nitroglycerin, one of the constituents of dynamite.  However, there are other processes that can be used to make dynamite without using peanuts at all.