Friday Food Facts

A bottle of Champagne contains approximately 49 million bubbles. This puts a whole new meaning to the term “Glass of bubbly”

Did you know that every child in the UK receives an average of 8.8 Easter Eggs every year – this is double the recommended calorie intake for a whole week!

The National Peanut Board estimates it takes about 540 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. That's approximately 45 peanuts per ounce of peanut butter.

Due to their similar protein composition, blood can be used as an egg substitute in baking and making ice cream according to a team of scientists at the Nordic Food Lab.

Every single bar of Tolerone contains a shadow of a bear.

In 2007, an Easter egg covered in diamonds sold for almost £9 million.

Cadbury Crème eggs are not sold all year around! They are only available annually between 1 January and Easter Day. Once they are sold out, there are no more produced for that year

When tea is being poured in China, guests tap two or three fingers on the table three times to show gratitude to the server.

Before the invention of synthetic dyes, mushrooms were widely used for dyeing wool and other natural fibers. Mushroom dyes are organic compounds and produce strong, vivid colors.