12th Jul 2019 - 05:00
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It’s time for another edition of Fun Friday Food Facts. Let us know you’re favourite on Twitter @CSCMag.
- The stickers on fruit are edible (FDA considers them food grade).
- In the Philippines people eat a common street food called Balut. It is a developing duck embryo that is boiled alive in its shell.
- Before 1991 Twix Bars were known as ‘raider’ in Europe.
- Three quarters of all the food we eat on this planet come from eight types of grains: maize, rice, wheat, oats, barley, sorghum, millet and rye.
- Apples belong to the rose family, as do pears and plums.
- A microwave uses more electricity to power its clock than to heat its food.
- In Australia Burger King is called Hungry Jacks.
- You have been eating insects all your life! Some red food colouring used in sweets is made of crushed bugs.
- You can pop a balloon with orange peel. The limonene in the orange peel dissolves the rubber.
- In 2001 Matt Hand broke the record for the number of grapes eaten in 3 minutes (he ate 133).
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