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29 Shocking Facts About Your Favorite Foods

1.When you eat a pineapple, it's "eating" you back.

a sliced pineapple

2.You can taste garlic with your feet.

cloves of garlic, next to bare feet

3.Eating cooked tomatoes can lower your chances of developing prostate cancer.

cooked tomatoes on a tray

4.Some ranch dressings are dyed with a chemical compound also used in sunscreen.

carrot in ranch dressing, next to a hand applying sunscreen to a leg

Titanium dioxide, an ingredient found in sunscreen, lotions, and other personal care products, helps give ranch dressing its white color. The FDA allows the use of titanium dioxide in foods, as long as it does not exceed 1%.

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5.Consuming too much nutmeg can make you high.

bowl of ground nutmeg and nuts

6.Graham crackers were invented to try and stop people from experiencing sexual urges.

plate of graham crackers next to a glass of milk

7.Scientists have used peanut butter to make diamonds.

peanut butter, an arrow, then various diamonds

8.Bananas are radioactive.

bunch of bananas

9.Hawaiian pizza was not actually invented in Hawaii.

a hawaiian pizza

10.Apples are a member of the rose family.

Roses, next to apples

So are pears, peaches, strawberries, and cherries!

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11.Mountain Dew was originally made to be a mixer for whiskey.

bottle of mountain dew

12.It takes more than 300 pounds per square inch to crack open a macadamia nut shell.

macadamia nuts with one partially cracked, revealing the nut inside

Macadamias are tricky little nuts. Their strong shells are cracked using steel rollers!

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13.Ketchup was once used as medicine.

little container of ketchup

14.Broccoli was invented by humans.

various heads of broccoli

15.Croissants are actually originally from Austria.

tray of croissants with powdered sugar

16.Potatoes are 80% water.

numerous potatoes

Only about 20% of a harvested potato is dry matter — 60% to 80% of that dry matter is starch.

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17.Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than plants.

a bunch of mushrooms

18.There are 15 billion jelly beans eaten every year.

hands holding many jelly beans

According to Jelly Belly, the jelly bean experts, if you laid those 15 billion beans from end to end, they'd wrap around the Earth about five times.

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19.Pringles aren't really potato chips.

Three canisters of Pringles

20.Raw lima beans can be deadly.

lima beans, next to a skull and crossbones to signify a substance is poisonous

21.Chickpeas and garbanzo beans are the same thing.

bowl of chickpeas

22.German chocolate cake isn't from Germany.

slice of german chocolate cake

23.Red candies are dyed using crushed up bugs.

a cochineal insect, next to red candies

The most natural way that candy is dyed red is using crushed up cochineal insects.

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24.Ripe cranberries bounce.

lots of cranberries

Farmers test the ripeness of their berries by dropping them over a wooden barrier to see if they bounce.

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25.Raw oysters are actually still alive when you eat them.

plate of raw oysters

Oysters go bad really fast, so restaurants serve them as quickly and as fresh as possible, meaning they are likely still alive when you eat them. Once oysters die, they are actually no longer safer to eat because of bacteria.

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26.Applesauce was the first food eaten by an American in space.

Astronaut John Glenn, next to a cup of applesauce

John Glenn was the first American to eat in space. He was aboard the Friendship 7 in 1962. He consumed applesauce packaged in a tube, as well as sugar tablets with water, proving people could eat, swallow, and digest in a zero-gravity environment.

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27.Cotton candy was invented by a dentist.

hand holding cotton candy

28.Eggplants are actually berries.

eggplants

29.Finally, seaweed is used in many dairy products.

red seaweed, an arrow, and a gallon of multi-flavored ice cream

Do you know an awesome food fact you'd like to share? Tell us in the comments!

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