oddball27
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- An onion, apple and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavour are caused by their smell.
- The pull-ring tab was invented in 1962 and the re-sealable top in 1965.
- China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year. 25 million trees are chopped down to make 'em sticks.
- Chocolate is the number one foodstuff flavour in the world, beating vanilla and banana by 3-to-1.
- Watermelons are 97% water, lettuce 97%, tomatoes 95%, carrots 90%, and bread 30%.
- Milk chocolate was invented by Daniel Peter, who sold the concept to his neighbour Henri Nestlé.
- An ounce of chocolate contains about 20 mg of caffeine.
- Three quarters of fish caught are eaten - the rest is used to make things such as glue, soap, margarine and fertilizer.
- To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, travelling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
- Botanically speaking, the banana is a herb and the tomato is a fruit.
- Bananas are the world's most popular fruit after tomatoes. In western countries, they could account for 3% of a grocer's total sales.
- Bananas consistently are the number one compliant of grocery shoppers.
- Approximately 44 million tons of bananas are produced annually, compared to more than 60 million tomatoes. Apples are the third most popular (36 million tons), then oranges (34 million tons) and watermelons (22 million tons).
- The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.
- Of the more than $50 billion worth of diet products sold every year, almost $20 billion are spent on imitation fats and sugar substitutes.
- Wine is sold in tinted bottles because wine spoils when exposed to light.
- 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.
- Carrots have zero fat content.
