Due to their similar protein composition, blood can be used as an egg substitute in baking and making ice cream according to a team of scientists at the Nordic Food Lab. They said they’d ‘developed recipes for sourdough-blood pancakes, blood ice cream, blood meringues, and ‘chocolate’ blood sponge cake’
In 1957 the BBC aired a faux documentary on April Fool’s Day that claimed spaghetti grew on trees. It even included footage of a woman harvesting noodles from trees and laying them in the sun to dry.
White chocolate isn't technically chocolate, as it contains no cocoa solids or cocoa liquor
Pringles once had a lawsuit, trying to prove they WEREN’T really potato chips. Wait what? That’s right. Even though the labelling clearly states ‘potato crisps’ - Procter and Gamble tried to argue that Pringles were not really made out of potato (rather a cocktail of chemicals) to try an be exempt from taxes. It worked for a while, until they finally got stung with $160 million in taxes to be paid.
Scientists in Austria are treating waste plastic and using it as a food source to grow two types of mushrooms that we regularly eat. They say it tastes neutral and are now looking to add flavouring.