12/10/2023
10 FOOD FACTS 10 FOOD FACTS
1. Cucumbers are 95% water. Other vegetables high in water are lettuce, celery, bok choy, radish, zucchini, green bell peppers, and asparagus.
2. Pineapple plants can take two to three years to produce a fruit. While pineapple plants can grow only one fruit at a time, some live up to 50 years!
3. Watermelon and bananas are berries, but strawberries are not! A lot of thought goes into classifying fruits and vegetables, and it all has to do with anatomy
4. Fruit salad trees grow different fruits on the same tree! These are called multi-grafted trees and they can grow up to six types of fruit at a time
5. The original carrots were purple and yellow, not orange. The first records show that carrots were purple and yellow until the 1500s.
6. Carrots are sweeter in the winter.
7. Nutmeg can make you hallucinate. A little bit of nutmeg is tasty, but don’t eat too much. In large doses, the sea*oning can have mind-altering effects due to a natural compound called myristicin.
8. Rotten eggs float. Worried that your eggs have gone bad? There’s an easy way to find out. Just put them in a glass of cold water and if they float, throw them out!
9. Potatoes are 80% water. You could probably juice a potato, but we’ll stick to mashed potatoes and fries!
10. Food tastes different in an airplane. While flying, you may have noticed that some flavors don’t taste the same as they do when you’re on the ground. That’s because altitude changes your body chemistry and decreases your taste sensitivity.
Good people from Inside Agbado please stay healthy always.
