The food we eat every day is an important part of our lives, yet it hides lots of interesting secrets that we can hardly imagine. Bright Side presents some less-known facts that reveal some of the mysteries that lie in our dishes.
-Coconut water can be used as a substitute for blood plasma in case of extreme need.
-Scientists can turn peanut oil into diamonds because of their high carbon content.
-The food on the planes is not particularly tasty, because our sense of smell and taste drops by 30% of the cabin's high pressure at high altitude.
-There are so many varieties of apples that if you eat one a day, it will take you over 20 years to try everyone.
-Cheese is the most commonly stolen food product in the world, with 4% missing every year.
-To make a chocolate of 100 grams, about 1700 liters of water is needed.
-Dark chocolate contains a substance that our body processes into phenylethylamine - the same thing that is released in our brains when we are in love.
-Honey does not spoil. All in all. The oldest honey was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter, in the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. It has been tested by biologists and found to be still fit for consumption.
-A McDonald's hamburger can contain meat from over 100 different cows.
-Potatoes can swallow and scatter Wi-Fi.
-The first dynamite was made using peanuts because the oil extracted from them was used to make nitroglycerin, one of the main components of dynamite.
-With the Nutela jars sold for one year, you can cover the Great Wall of China eight times.
-Fruit extract monk is about 300 times sweeter than sugar.
-100% pure orange juice bought from the store is 100% artificially flavored.
-Tea bags are created by chance because customers started using the samples without opening them.
-Eximos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
-People are genetically programmed to love jam.
-Tomato sauce was compressed in the form of pills, and sold as a medicine against diarrhea in the 19th century.
-If left directly on the skin for a long time, garlic may cause third degree burns because of the chemicals contained in it.
-Every day every second in the world sells about 75 hamburgers from McDonald's.
-On August 10, 2015 astronauts eat the first food - lettuce - grown in space.
-If all people become vegetarians by 2050, this will prevent nearly 7 million human deaths per year.
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