Friday Food Facts

• Beijing has more than 3 million egg-laying hens that are looked after by robot ‘nannies’.
• The heaviest carrot was grown in 1998 and it weighted 8.61Kg.
• Every day over 75

• Populations of oysters were so large when European colonists first arrived in America that they were considered ‘the poor man's protein’ and were even used as fertiliser and fish bait.

• The vegetable that loses its taste the fastest is asparagus, so it is recommended that it is eaten on the day of purchase if possible.
• Andrew Lawrence holds the record time for run

• Full of flavour and sweeter than other crabs, the Cromer Crab is probably Norfolk’s most famous food item and can be found on menus around the world.
• Norfolk has traditionally been

•    It takes 50 glasses of water to grow enough oranges to make one glass of orange juice

• You can get a variety of bacon flavoured products including bacon popcorn, bacon vodka and bacon mints.
• Researchers in Oregon have bred a new strain of the red seaweed dulce that t

• Hamburgers were called ‘Liberty Sandwiches' during the First World War due to antipathy towards Germany.
• If all the hamburgers that are eaten by Americans in a calendar year are li

• Rum was first distilled in the Caribbean around 400 years ago and often in the 1700s sailors would be paid with rum.

• An apricot tree is capable of producing fruits for a period of 20 years to 25 years.
• In 2010 worldwide production of carrots reached 33.5 million tons.

• The record for the world’s largest oyster is held by a Pacific oyster in Denmark which measures 35.5cm (1ft 2in) in length and weighs 1.6kg (3.5lb).
• Oysters contain a variety of vi