Delicious Food Facts
- The world’s longest French fry is 34-inches long.
- Garlic bulbs are full of Vitamin C, iron, potassium, magnesium, zinc, and more. It also has 17 amino acids.
- On the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, potatoes were once used as currency.
- The strawberry is the only fruit that bears seeds on the outside.
- According to Tori Avey, coffee became a popular drink in America after the Boston Tea Party of 1773: making the switch from tea to coffee was considered a patriotic duty.
- The double coconut palm produced the biggest seed in the world: 45 pounds.
- Ice cream was once called “cream ice.”
- Pound cake is so-called because the recipes once called for a pound of butter, a pound of sugar, a pound of eggs, and a pound of flour.
- Peanuts aren’t nuts! (They’re legumes.)
- Carrots weren’t always orange: they were once exclusively purple.
- Cherries are a member of the rose family (Rosaceae) as are quince, pears, plums, apples, peaches and raspberries!
- Lima beans have an amazing ability to command wasps as a defense. If insects are eating the lima bean’s leaves, the plant gives off a substance that acts as a signal to parasitic wasps to swoop in and destroy their enemy (i.e. the leaf-eating insects).
- Apples float because they are one-quarter air!
- Ripe cranberries will bounce like a ball. (Go on, try it!). They also float.