There are more than 7,000 varieties of apples grown in the world. The apples from one tree can fill 20 boxes every year. Each box weighs an average 42 pounds.
The candies least harmful to the teeth are pies, plain cakes, and doughnuts.
Olive oil is made only from green olives. Nearly the entire production of green olives grown in Italy is converted into olive oil.
There are professional tea tasters as well as wine tasters.
The candies most likely to cause tooth decay are dark chocolate and fudge
Thin-skinned lemons are the juiciest.
On the average, there are eight peas in a pod.
The cashew is part of a fruit called a "cashew apple" that grows in tropical regions. After harvesting, the cashew apple keeps for only 24 hours before the soft fruit deteriorates. The cashew apple is not commercially important since it spoils quickly, but local people love the fruit. To harvest the nut, the ripe apple is allowed to fall to the ground where natives easily gather it. The apple and nut are separated.
There are two types of asparagus — green and white. One of the most popular varieties of green asparagus is named after Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington.
On the average, each American consumes 117 pounds of potatoes, 116 pounds of beef, 100 pounds of fresh vegetable, 80 pounds of fresh fruit, and 286 eggs per year.
The capsaicin found in peppers has been found to be an anticoagulant. Anticoagulants tend to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes caused by blood clots.
There are thousands of varieties of shrimp, but most are so tiny that they are more likely to be eaten by whales than people. Of the several hundred around the world that people do eat, only a dozen or so appear with any regularity in the United States.
On food, writer Barbara Costikyan notes, "In the childhood memories of every good cook, there's a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot, and a mom."
The Chinese drink an average of just eight soft drinks per year, and only one (or less) is a Coca-Cola product.
On the Italian Riviera in Viareggio, there is a culinary tradition that a good soup must always contain one stone from the sea. This stems from the days when an Italian fisherman's catch was scooped up in nets; fish and stones frequently ended up together in the same cooking pot.
Though most people think of salt as a seasoning, only 5 out of every 100 pounds produced each year go to the dinner table.
The Chinese used to open shrimp by flaying the shells with bamboo poles. Until a few years ago, in factories where dried shrimp were being prepared, "shrimp dancers" were hired to tramp on the shells with special shoes.
One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of soda. A single bushel of corn can produce: 32 pounds of cornstarch, 1.6 pounds of corn oil, 11.4 pounds of 21% protein gluten feed or 3 pounds of 60% gluten meal.
The city in the United States that purchases the most ice cream on a per capita basis is Portland, Oregon.
One has to eat 11 pounds of potatoes to put on 1 pound of weight — a potato has no more calories than an apple.
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