Food Facts

 

-Someone living in New York could eat out every night of thier life and never eat at the same restaurant.

-The Snickers bar is America’s most popular candy bar.

-Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year.

-The Incas measured time by how long it took a potato to cook.

-Apples ripen after being picked while oranges do not.

-Broccoli was introduced into the U.S. in the 1920s.

-Choking on food is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.

-Potato chips are the biggest selling snack food in the U.S. and Canada.

-A peanut is one of the most concentrated source of nourishment.

-Half the people in the world will eat rice on any given day.

-Alaskans eat twice as much ice cream per capita than the rest of the nation.

-A typical banana travels 4,000 miles before being eaten.

-There are 27 chemicals that can be added to bread without being listed on the label.

-Coffee is the world’s most recognizable smell.

-Most icecream is eaten between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m.

-Half of all coffee drinkers drink it black.

-It takes four tons of grapes to make one ton of rasins.

-Apples are the most popular fruit in the U.S.

-13 boxes of jello are sold every second.

-A can of spam is opened every 4 seconds somewhere on Earth.

-An average adult eats 2,000 pounds of food each year.