FOOD FACTS

                  

A fantastic list of random food facts from fruit & vegegetables, to chocolate and candy. If you love your food, you’ll enjoy these facts!

1. A survey showed 29% of adults say they have been splashed or scalded by hot drinks while dunking biscuits.
2. Ortharexia Nervosa is an eating disorder where the sufferer is obsessed with eating healthy food.
3. Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as medicine.
4. In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket.
5. The fear of cooking is known as Mageirocophobia and is a recognised phobia.
6. Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
7. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
8. Pearls melt in vinegar.
9. The ancient Greeks chewed a gum-like substance called mastic that came from the bark of a tree.
10. The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.
11. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
12. If you boil beetroot in water, and then massage the water into your scalp each night, it works as an effective cure for dandruff.