Friday Food Facts

• A 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum was the first ever item to have its barcode scanned when bought – it happened at an Ohio supermarket in the US in June 1974
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• The Sami people from northern Scandinavia traditionally fed magic mushrooms to their reindeer and then collected their urine to drink.

• In Slovakia, it is a Christmas tradition that the oldest man of the household takes a spoonful of loksa pudding – a potato-based pancake batter - and throws it at the ceiling.

• £50m is spent on buying more than 370 million mince pies over the Christmas period. And every Brit eats an average of 27 mince pies each
• Can water be too clean?

• Taking ginger daily can help reduce muscle pain caused by exercise, or at least researchers claim. In a 2010 study a team of scientists said it could cut pain by 25%.

• Consumption of too much salt can be deadly – you need to take about 1 gram of salt per kilogram of weight to die and this was used as a method of ritual suicide in China – especially among t

• If you had to survive on just one food, what would be the best bet?

• You can now buy an apple that doesn’t brown when sliced. Released in 2016 the Arctic Apple is the first genetically engineered fruit to be sold in the US.

• A discovery about the KFC Twitter account has blown people’s minds. KFC’s official twitter account, which has more than 1.2 million followers, only follows 11 people!?! Strange?

Eating chocolate could help your career. No seriously, it really could. Research has concluded eating chocolate before studying increases your chance of understanding and retaining information.