Friday Food Facts

• 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.

Though Ferrero is often credited with inventing Nutella, it was actually his father, Pietro, who first thought to mix chocolate with hazelnuts.  Amid widespread chocolate shortages in the wake of W

The highest tower of 1,280 poppadums was piled up in Northampton to celebrate Curry Week in 2012. It was 5ft 8in high.

How can you tell if a egg is raw or hard cooked? SPIN IT! If the egg spins easily, it is hard cooked but if it wobbles, it is raw.

As well as being the world’s first cupcake-only bakery, Beverly Hills-based Sprinkles Bakery also developed a hole in a wall ATM that dispenses cupcakes 24 hours a day, holding up to 600 fresh cupc

• The strongest drink in the world sold commercially is Spirytus from Poland.