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Fun Friday Food Facts Vol.9

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18th Sep 2015 - 11:17

Fast food restaurants like McDonalds, Wimpy and Burger King use yellow, red, and orange as part of their branding because those are the colours that stimulate hunger.

Fun Friday Food Facts Vol. 7

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4th Sep 2015 - 11:11

Scientists found in one test that the dye from blue M&M's can repair rats' spinal injuries when injected into them, but as a side effect it will turn them blue.

Fun Friday Food Facts Vol. 6

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28th Aug 2015 - 11:44

Every year up to a dozen people in Japan choke to death on glutinous cakes of pounded rice – known as mochi – which are traditionally eaten to celebrate the New Year.

Fun Friday Food Facts Vol. 5

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21st Aug 2015 - 10:32
The expiry date on a bottle of water is for the bottle not the water It's illegal to upload pictures of meals to Instagram in Germany. In 2013 a Federal Court of Justice ruling found elaborately arranged food to be the artistic property of its creator. Essentially, this means that you'll need to ask the chef's permission before taking and uploading a picture of your latest meal.

Fun Friday Food Facts Vol. 4

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14th Aug 2015 - 10:37
Eating an apple is a more reliable method of staying awake than consuming a cup of coffee. The natural sugar in an apple is more potent than the caffeine in coffee. Nutmeg can get you high! It contains myristicin, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses. The buzz can last one to two days and can be hallucinogenic, much like LSD. The TomTato plant produces both tomatoes and potatoes. The quinine in tonic water causes it to glow bright blue under a black light.

Fun Friday Food Facts Vol. 3

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7th Aug 2015 - 09:25

You can cover the Great Wall of China 8 times with the amount of Nutella sold each year.

The Indian dish known as Bombay Duck is nothing to do with birds at all, it is a fish dish.

Fun Friday Food Facts Vol. 2

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31st Jul 2015 - 11:25

Coconut water can be used as blood plasma (coconut water is a universal donor and is identical to human blood plasma.  This natural isotonic beverage has the same level of electrolytic balance that

Fun Friday Food Facts

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24th Jul 2015 - 11:56

Cheese is the most stolen food in the world. 4% of all the world’s cheese supply (around 720,000 metric tonnes!!!!) is stolen each year and often resold to restaurants.