14 Food Facts to Make Your Mouth Water

Featured 11/14/2018 in wow

Take a bite out of these pics to fill your brain up. Don't jump in the pool after reading these.

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1. Mangoes can get sunburned. When sunburned, they have reduced palatability and are usually used to make juice.
2. Fritos only have three ingredients: corn, corn oil, and salt. That’s it.
3. Until 2011, Russia classified beer and any other beverage under 10% ABV as a soft drink.
4. Every banana you eat is a clone. Nearly all the world’s banana exports come from a single, cultivated variety called the Cavendish. Cavendish bananas are seedless and therefore sterile meaning that farmers must clone the plant.
5. Altitude can change taste. The combination of dryness and low pressure reduces the sensitivity of your taste buds to sweet and salty foods by around 30%.
6. Pringles once faced a lawsuit claiming that they weren’t really potato chips, seeing as they’re only 42% potato flour. Ultimately, the court ruled that legally, they are indeed potato chips.
7. Baby carrots are a lie. They’re just full-size carrots cut up into bite-sized lies.
8. Every color of Froot Loops has the exact same flavor.
9. Cheese is the most stolen food in the world. Gotta get that cheesy goodness!
10. Cheez-Its actually contain paprika!
11. For those who don’t already know, raw oysters are still alive when you eat them.
12. Before the big kale craze of today, Pizza Hut was the largest wholesale purchaser of kale in the U.S. because they would garnish their buffet tables with the leafy green.
13. Hawaiian pizza was invented in…Canada! The style that started the age old debate of whether or not pineapple belongs on pizza was invented in Chatham, Ontario.
14. Carrots were originally purple or yellow. Dutch carrot-growers of the 17th century eventually cultivated carrots into the orange color we know today.

1. Mangoes can get sunburned. When sunburned, they have reduced palatability and are usually used to make juice.
2. Fritos only have three ingredients: corn, corn oil, and salt. That’s it.
3. Until 2011, Russia classified beer and any other beverage under 10% ABV as a soft drink.
4. Every banana you eat is a clone. Nearly all the world’s banana exports come from a single, cultivated variety called the Cavendish. Cavendish bananas are seedless and therefore sterile meaning that farmers must clone the plant.
5. Altitude can change taste. The combination of dryness and low pressure reduces the sensitivity of your taste buds to sweet and salty foods by around 30%.
6. Pringles once faced a lawsuit claiming that they weren’t really potato chips, seeing as they’re only 42% potato flour. Ultimately, the court ruled that legally, they are indeed potato chips.
7. Baby carrots are a lie. They’re just full-size carrots cut up into bite-sized lies.
8. Every color of Froot Loops has the exact same flavor.
9. Cheese is the most stolen food in the world. Gotta get that cheesy goodness!
10. Cheez-Its actually contain paprika!
11. For those who don’t already know, raw oysters are still alive when you eat them.
12. Before the big kale craze of today, Pizza Hut was the largest wholesale purchaser of kale in the U.S. because they would garnish their buffet tables with the leafy green.
13. Hawaiian pizza was invented in…Canada! The style that started the age old debate of whether or not pineapple belongs on pizza was invented in Chatham, Ontario.
14. Carrots were originally purple or yellow. Dutch carrot-growers of the 17th century eventually cultivated carrots into the orange color we know today.