Shocking facts about food (25 photos)

Top 25 amazing facts about our food



25. Most of the carrots used to be purple, until it was withdrawn their modern orange color.



24. Mini-carrots are actually cut from the usual size carrots that were too lumpy and ugly, to be sold in stores.


23. Most of wasabi that you buy at the store, or to eat in the restaurant, in fact, is a colored horseradish. Real wasabi is very expensive to grow.



22. McDonald's sells hamburgers in 75 seconds every day.



21. The coconut water can be used as blood plasma.



20. Peanut is not a nut, it is a plant of the legume family.



19. Popsicle stick was invented by 11-year-old boy in 1905.



18. One of the products is hydrating cucumber, which is 96 percent water.



17. On Earth, there are 7,500 different varieties of apples.



16. If you have tried one new class every day, the fact to try everything, you would take 20 years.



15. Almost 70 per cent of commercially available brands of olive oil actually are not olive oil, even really expensive brands.



14. Apparently, the Italian mafia to make money on the sale of fake olive oil around the world for so long that even the most professional tasters do not know what the taste of olive oil is present.



13. In fact, the sale of fake olive oil is described by experts of the European Union Anti-Fraud Office as "comparable to cocaine trafficking, but without any risk».



12. The milk, orange juice and coffee are other popular products which may also be counterfeit, or at least does not contain what is listed on their labels.



11. One of the most popular topping for pizza in Brazil is green peas.



10. In the UK, the potato chips are one of the few products that are actually taxed. That is why the company "Procter & Gamble» (Proctor and Gamble) tried to assert that «Pringles» are not potato chips ... just savory snacks.



9. The Court disagreed, and «Pringles» are legally potato chips.



8. Chocolate was once used as a currency.



7. softener L-cysteine, which is used in some types of bread made from duck feathers and human hair.



6. castoreum, which is used as a vanilla flavoring in a variety of candy and baked goods, is actually a discharge from the anal glands of beavers.



5. In the 1800s ketchup was used as a medicine to treat diarrhea.



4. When used in high doses, nutmeg is working as a hallucinogen.



3. Snacks fruity made using the same wax that is used for cars.



2. Arahibutirofobiya is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the palate of your mouth.



1. Tokyo has the amusement park, which offers ice cream flavored horse meat.