FFF1- Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries

FFF2- According to archaeologists, honey is the only food that cannot spoil. According to a report, archaeologists found and tasted honey discovered in ancient Egyptian tombs, and deemed it still edible.

FFF3- If you love your steak rare, you may be better off. It has been found that well-done steak, especially if it has ‘charred’ portions, contains much higher levels of carcinogens than a medium-done or rare steak.

FFF4- The smaller the size of a berry, the sweeter its taste.

FFF5- In order for green tea to have a therapeutic effect- one of it’s well known benefits- a person must drink at least 4-5 cups per day.

FFF6- Artificial colourings in foods have been found to be linked to Attention Deficit Hyper-active Disorder (ADHD) symptoms.

FFF7- To prevent potassium enriched bananas from going brown, you can refrigerate them to extend their freshness.

FFF8- As of yet, diet fizzy drinks haven’t been found to aid in weight loss. Instead, researchers have found that it actually increases hunger.

FFF9- Ice cream is actually Chinese food. Believe it or not, when famous explorer Marco Polo returned to his homeland of Italy, from China in 1925, he brought back a recipe (among other things). The recipe was a Chinese recipe for a desert, called ‘Milk Ice’. However, Europeans substituted cream for the milk, and voila… Ice cream.

FFF10- Carrots really can help you see in the dark. Vitamin A, a supplement abound in carrots is known to prevent night blindness, so your mom was right.

FFF11- Half of the world’s population lives on a staple diet of rice.

FFF12- Ever wondered why you always get a lemon slice with your seafood, even if it doesn’t need the flavour? According to Middle Age tradition, a lemon slice was always served with fish, with the belief that the acidity of the lemon juice would dissolve any accidently swallowed bones.

FFF13- Weight-watchers will be pleased to know that winter weight-gain is actually a biological mechanism we can’t control. Studies have shown that temperature affects our appetite, and that cold weather does indeed make you feel more hungry.

FFF14- For anaemic sufferers, you might want to consider adding a source of Vitamin C to your protein foods. This is because foods such as oranges, lemons, strawberries and tomatoes, make the body use iron more efficiently during the break-down of your chicken fillet for example.

FFF15- Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite, just goes to show that dynamite really does come in small packages.

FFF16- Sometimes frozen fruits and vegetables may be better than their fresh counterparts. This is because the longer a fruit or vegetable sits around waiting to be sold or eaten, the nutritional value becomes depleted. Whereas frozen fruit and vegetables are frozen immediately after picking, locking in the goodness and nutritional value.

FFF17- So it’s not really a Fun Food Fact, but did you know that the founder of Mac Donald’s has a bachelor degree in Hamburgerology???

FFF18- It is alleged that during the average person’s lifetime, a person will have consumed about 35 tonnes of food. Still hungry?

FFF19- Two 340 gram servings of freshly juiced apples, pears, carrots, celery and leafy greens can produce the same effect as twice the dosing recommendation of a laxative.

FFF20- Did you know the word salary comes from the word salt? And that people were actually paid in grams of salt back in the day? Scary thought, but salt, our oldest preservative, was extremely rare in the past, so rare that it was used as pay. Imagine earning a couple of tablespoons of salt for a hard-days work.

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