Friday Food Facts

• To check if cranberries are fresh, throw them on a counter and see if they bounce back – if they do, you’re safe to eat!
• Baked Alaska isn't from Alaska - the actual origins are a m

• The Kellogg brothers first created cornflakes as therapy for mental patients
• Eating poppy seed bread and bagels can make you fail a drugs test.

• Recognising the crucial role of fish and chips during WW1 and WW2, they were two of the few foods not subject to rationing because the government feared the dish was so embedded in the natio

As an antidote to the mayhem, we offer our weekly dose of calm in the form of Fun Friday Food Facts. For best results, simply take six, breathe deeply and let the trivia wash over you …

• Cheese is the most shoplifted food item in the world – 4% of the world’s production is stolen each year!

• 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.”

• The UK eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined. 1.5 million cans of Heinz Beanz are sold in the UK every day
• In 2005, PG Tips celebrated its 75th annivers

• When Usain Bolt broke the world record for the 100m at the Beijing Olympics, he was training on a McDonald’s diet of 100 chicken nuggets a day plus side orders of fries and apple pies becaus

• Peeling an apple will remove 50% of its total fibre and around 30% of its vitamin C
•  There are coffee houses in Russia where food and drink are free, but you pay for time

• In 1982, US President Ronald Reagan named August "Peach Month" and called on all Americans to incorporate the fruit into their diets
• Chewing coffee beans can help eliminate bad bre