8th Aug 2025 - 06:00
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Fun Friday Food Facts is returning this week with ten facts across a range of categories including Science & Nutrition, Fruits & Veggies and Global Cuisine.
- Origins & History: Potatoes were the first vegetable grown in space.
- Science & Nutrition: Avocados have more potassium than bananas.
- Fast Food Facts: The Happy Meal from McDonald’s was launched nationally in 1979
- Sweets & Desserts: Gummy bears were invented in Germany.
- Fruits & Veggies: Watermelons are both a fruit and a vegetable.
- Global Cuisine: Haggis is illegal to import into the U.S.
- Dairy & Cheese: The holes in Swiss cheese are caused by carbon dioxide bubbles.
- Grains, Bread, & Pasta: Bread was once used as an eraser in art.
- Meat, Eggs & Seafood: Salmon gets its pink colour from eating krill.
- Miscellaneous Food Fun: Salt was once so valuable it was used to pay Roman soldiers
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