Friday Food Facts

As an antidote to the mayhem, we offer our weekly dose of calm in the form of Fun Friday Food Facts. For best results, simply take six, breathe deeply and let the trivia wash over you …

• Cheese is the most shoplifted food item in the world – 4% of the world’s production is stolen each year!

• Astronauts do not consume sodas or carbonated drinks in space because the lack of gravity to separate the liquid and gas in the stomach leads to a kind of vomiting called “wet burping.”

• The UK eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined. 1.5 million cans of Heinz Beanz are sold in the UK every day
• In 2005, PG Tips celebrated its 75th annivers

• When Usain Bolt broke the world record for the 100m at the Beijing Olympics, he was training on a McDonald’s diet of 100 chicken nuggets a day plus side orders of fries and apple pies becaus

• Peeling an apple will remove 50% of its total fibre and around 30% of its vitamin C
•  There are coffee houses in Russia where food and drink are free, but you pay for time

• In 1982, US President Ronald Reagan named August "Peach Month" and called on all Americans to incorporate the fruit into their diets
• Chewing coffee beans can help eliminate bad bre

• There is an ice cream fruit in Hawaii. That’s right, there’s a Hawaiian fruit that tastes exactly like vanilla ice cream.

• Made with mashed potatoes or potato starch, potato doughnuts were once so popular they had their own fast food chain: Spudnuts.

• The way actor Peter Sallis had Wallace say the word ‘cheese’ in the Wallace & Gromit films prompted creator Nick Park to radically change his initial design for the character’s head so h