Friday Food Facts

11% of a standard pigs weight is bacon. A 200 pound pig will yield roughly 20 pounds of bacon depending on the butchering process!

An area the size of 300 football pitches is cleared every hour for palm oil production. Solid at room temperature, the oil is used in making bread, cakes, ice cream, chocolate and spreads.

McDonald's sells more than 75 hamburgers every second, of every day!

60% of sandwiches sold globally are actually burgers.

Hamburgers account for 71% of beef served in all American restaurants - not surprising when McDonald sells 75+ burgers every second and holds the record of selling 300 billion burgers to date.

The call for action comes amid scares over egg contamination across Europe and follows the FSA’s announcement yesterday that a small number of the eggs, potentially containing traces of the pestici

The world’s first commercially available non-dairy ice cream was Chill-Zert, launched in the US in 1951. However, the first recipe for dairy-free ice cream dates from 1899 and used almond milk.

The 99 Flake is the UK's favourite ice cream, but do you know how it got its name? In the days of the monarchy in Italy the King had an elite guard consisting of 99 soldiers.

During the plague, doctors wore masks filled with juniper berries to ward off the disease.

During WW2 the British Special Operations Executive deployed garlic flavoured chocolate bars distributed to spies behind enemy lines in Spain with the hope that the smell on their breath would help

Next time someone tells you off for drinking too much alcohol, remind them that there are 13 minerals that are essential for human beings to survive and all of them can be found in alcohol.