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Fun Nutrition Trivia Facts
Fast food restaurants use yellow, red, and orange because those are the colors that stimulate hunger.
People over the age of fifty start to lose their dislike for foods that taste bitter.
The average person can live about a month without eating any food, but can only live about a week without water.
97 percent of caffeine must be removed from coffee for it to be labeled "decaffeinated."
One-third pound stalk of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 204 apples.
It takes about three hours for food to be broken down in the human stomach.
The eight most popular foods to cause food allergies are: milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts, soy, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish.
The first fruit eaten on the moon was a peach. Carrots were first grown as a medicine. Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva. Hippocrates noted the medicinal properties of lettuce in 430 B.C.
Blueberries have more antioxidants than any other fruit or vegetables.
no wonder blueberries are super expensive la
ReplyDeleteMedicinal properties of lettuce include:
ReplyDelete- removing flatulence,
- improving circulation,
- decreasing risk of artherosclerosis,
- reducing cholesterol level
- treating conjunctivitus by boiling the leaves and using it as an eye-wash (i'm not sure about this though)