Facts

1. The most expensive coffee in the world comes from civet poop.
2.  The largest food item on a menu is roast camel.
3.  The first soup was made of hippopotamus.
4. Microwave cooking was discovered accidentally, when a chocolate bar melted in someone’s pocket.
5. Dynamite is made with peanuts.
6. Coconut water can be used (in emergencies) as a substitute for blood plasma.
7. Coca-Cola was invented in Atlanta, Georgia by Dr. John S. Pemberton in 1886.
8. When honey is swallowed, it enters the blood stream within a period of 20 minutes.
9. The difference between apple juice and apple cider is that the juice is pasteurized and the cider is not.
10. The colour of a chilli is no indication of its spiciness, but size usually is - the smaller the pepper, the hotter it is.
11. Rice is the staple food of more than one-half of the world's population.
12.  In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
13. Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.
14. Chocolate is the number one foodstuff flavour in the world, beating vanilla and banana by 3-to-1.
15. Botanically speaking, the banana is a herb and the tomato is a fruit. 
16. There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.
17. Meat production causes 1/5 of global greenhouse gasses.