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Coffee is a fruit and other unbelievably true food facts

Tasty trivia
Vinegar on your fries makes them better for you
Honey pretty much never goes off
A glass of orange juice is almost as sugary as a glass of cola
Almonds have twice as much calcium as milk
There are fewer calories in nuts than it says on the packet
Red peppers have almost 2.5 times more vitamin C than oranges
Tomatoes are fruits not veggies
Skimmed milk creates the best foam for coffee
There’s a Dunkin’ Donuts coffee that contains over half a day's calories
Sugar doesn’t make kids hyperactive...
...but brightly colored foods might make kids cranky
Chocolate really doesn’t give you spots
There’s no rule that you have to drink eight glasses of water a day
Beyond 30 your bones don’t get any stronger no matter what you eat
Darker drinks come with more of a hangover
You can still be driving under the influence (DUI) in the morning
Eating late doesn't make you pile on weight
Your hay fever symptoms can predict food allergies
Plain old vegetable is as good for your heart as olive oil
Around 400 million Tim Tams are sold per year
Potatoes don't always count towards your five-a-day
Eating cholesterol-rich foods doesn’t raise your blood cholesterol
Just one carrot gives you all of your daily vitamin A
Cucumber is 96.5% water
Washing your greens won’t remove E. coli
Pasta in a salad is less fattening than pasta eaten hot
Some sweeteners can have laxative effects
A lot of popular fruits belong to the rose family
You can hear rhubarb grow
Cheese is the most stolen food in the world
There are a million bubbles in your glass of Champagne
The sandwich is named after an Earl
Mushrooms are virtually impossible to overcook
Oysters were once a poor man's food
Lobsters were fed to prisoners
How bees produce honey is extraordinary
You can make chalk from eggshells
Only some countries sell eggs refrigerated
Brazil nuts are super-rich in selenium
White chocolate isn’t really chocolate
Coconut oil has more saturated fat than butter
RC Cola is the most acidic soft drink in America
Vegans narrowly missed being called “benevores”
Peanuts aren’t nuts
The fuzz on peaches protects them from rotting
Everyone makes asparagus pee, but not everyone can smell it
Chicken livers have a lot more iron than steak
Dried thyme is 45 times richer in iron than beef
Milk isn’t naturally rich in vitamin D
Ripe cranberries bounce
Oklahoma’s state vegetable is a watermelon
Japanese chefs created a $920 (£732) burger
Guinness World Record eating feats: stuffing blueberries in the mouth
Guinness World Record eating feats: drinking a bottle of ketchup
Guinness World Record eating feats: chocolate eating
The most expensive grilled cheese sandwich cost $214 (£170)
One of the world's biggest biscuits weighed about the same as a Dalmatian dog
Tea bags were an accident
Tomatoes shouldn’t be kept in the fridge
A bag of potato chips has as much vitamin C as an apple
Mushrooms make vitamin D in sunlight just like we do
The red food color cochineal comes from crushed up insects
Large amounts of nutmeg can cause a hallucinogenic high
A 20-fl-oz (600ml) Pepsi and three chocolate-iced Krispy Kreme donuts with sprinkles have the same sugar content
A humid oven makes softer-crusted bread
Humans and guinea pigs don’t make vitamin C
Blood can substitute eggs in recipes
Watercress helps your body detox
Americans eat more than 20lb (9kg) of onions a year
Hot and cold water sound different when you’re pouring them into a glass
Apples contain a lot of air
Greens should be boiled from hot; potatoes from cold
Are those wood shavings in my cheese?
Cream’s fat content varies massively around the world
Eating pulses helps the environment
Soya milk is one of the few non-dairy milks with a good amount of protein
Bananas are radioactive
Carrots can turn you orange
Coffee is really a fruit
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Tasty trivia

It's often said that fact is stranger than fiction and that certainly applies to some of the weird and wonderful things you’ll find out about food and eating when you dig a little deeper. Indeed, some diet-related facts seem so strange you’ll wonder if they’re true. Here are 79 fact-checked food nuggets that will entertain and surprise you, compiled by loveFOOD's nutritionist Angela Dowden.
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Angela Dowden

04 June 2020

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