Friday Food Facts

Naturally blue food is rare and we don’t have an automatic appetite response to the colour.

NASA has built a 3D printer that makes pizzas, which they are hoping to take on long missions to Mars.

Vending Machines kill four times the number of people than sharks do every year. Between 1978 and 1995, 37 people were killed shaking vending machines trying to get free food.

Queen Victoria would eat her food so fast that she could eat a 7 course dinner in 30 mins.

Believe it or not peanuts are actually used to create dynamite. They are ground down to make an oil called glycerol.

Fast food restaurants like McDonalds, Wimpy and Burger King use yellow, red, and orange as part of their branding because those are the colours that stimulate hunger.

Chocolate is as healthy as fruit.

Scientists found in one test that the dye from blue M&M's can repair rats' spinal injuries when injected into them, but as a side effect it will turn them blue.

Every year up to a dozen people in Japan choke to death on glutinous cakes of pounded rice – known as mochi – which are traditionally eaten to celebrate the New Year.