Most wasabi consumed is not real wasabi but coloured horseradish (real wasabi comes from grating the root of the Wasabia Japonica which can be found in Japan).
Black soldier flies are the future if scientists are to be believed – their larvae can be baked into bread and biscuits, dried for pet food, used in place of fishmeal in the diet of farmed f
The lollipop was first invented in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1908 by George Smith, who enjoyed going to the races so much that he named his creation after a competitor of the time, a horse
Astronauts do not consume sodas or carbonated drinks in space because the lack of gravity to separate the liquid and gas in the stomach leads to a kind of vomiting called 'wet burping'.