Food and Drink Facts

Tags: Memory, Brain, Blueberry, Juice, Blueberry Juice

Fact Page: Blueberry juice boosts memory.
Date Added: 2011-02-08 20:02:03
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Tags: Beer, Recipe, Drink, Alcohol

Fact Page: The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.
Date Added: 2011-01-20 17:21:58
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Tags: Tabasco Sauce, Whiskey, Alcohol, Jack Daniel's, Interesting

Fact Page: Tabasco sauce is aged in barrels previously used for Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey.
Date Added: 2013-04-16 00:11:11
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Tags: Food, McDonald's, Exercise, Health

Fact Page: You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac.
Date Added: 2012-04-01 19:51:53
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Tags: Cheerios, Cereal, Breakfast, Food, Interesting, History

Fact Page: 50 years ago Cheerios were called Cheerioats.
Date Added: 2012-03-07 00:47:30
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Tags: American, USA, United States, McDonalds, Children, Statistic, Fast Food, Food, Junk Food

Fact Page: Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.
Date Added: 2011-10-14 02:16:01
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Tags: Chocolate, Caffeine, Tea, Coffee, Coca Cola, Coke, Interesting, Food, Drink

Fact Page: Chocolate is lower in caffeine than tea, coffee and coca cola. A one ounce bar of chocolate contains about 6mg of caffeine, whereas a five ounce cup of regular coffee contains over 40mg.
Date Added: 2011-10-05 11:02:02
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Tags: Chocolate, Serotonin, Hormone, Brain, Health, Happiness, Happy, Interesting

Fact Page: Chocolate is associated with the release of serotonin, the hormone that makes you feel relaxed, calm, and happy.
Date Added: 2011-10-05 10:55:16
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Tags: Chocolate, World Record, Mint, Chicago, Food, Mint Chocolate

Fact Page: The largest box of chocolates contained 90,090 Frango mint chocolates and weighed 3,3226 lbs! It was made by Marshall Field's of Chicago on November 14, 2002.
Date Added: 2011-10-05 10:53:17
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Tags: Wine, Alcohol, Bottle, Drink

Fact Page: The purpose of the indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle is to strengthen the structure of the bottle.
Date Added: 2011-09-29 15:11:01
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Many people are surprised to learn that orange juice naturally contains a small amount of alcohol. The alcohol has not been added to the juice, but is produced by fermentation which occurs when yeasts or bacteria convert sugars into carbon dioxide and alcohol. There are many naturally-occurring yeasts on the orange peel, and some of them get into the juice when the orange is handled or squeezed.

Paul Davis from the USDA Market Quality Research Division measured the amount of ethanol in citrus fruits at harvest (ethanol is the "drinking alcohol" - the main form of alcohol in wines, beers and spirits). He found large variations according to the variety of fruit and also according to the month of harvest. Fruit picked towards the end of the harvest season was highest in ethanol (because the yeasts have had longer to convert sugar to alcohol). The exception was the Valencia Orange, which had a fairly constant alcohol content throughout the season.

The amounts that Paul Davis measured were very low, the highest being just under 0.07% alcohol by weight (equivalent to around 0.09% alcohol by volume) in Valencia Oranges.

After the orange is picked the ethanol content continues to increase, depending on how long and in what conditions the orange is stored. To reduce spoilage, fruit is sometimes stored in an artificial atmosphere. Davis also treated his fruits with fungicide. After eight weeks of storage he obtained ethanol readings up to 0.31% ABW (0.39% ABV).

In many countries any drink with less than 0.5% ABV can legally be described as non-alcoholic, because your body can metabolise the alcohol as fast as you consume the drink. Although all orange juice contains alcohol, the quantity is low enough that you won't get intoxicated from it, even if you drink many glasses of it. However in places with zero-tolerance rules against driving with any measurable alcohol in your blood, you might need to be careful if you are a very heavy orange juice drinker.

Paul Davis focused his research on citrus fruits, but other fruits such as grapes and peaches also have alcohol in their juice.

Tags: Alcohol, Orange, Orange Juice, Juice, Fruit

Fact Page: Orange juice naturally contains a small amount of alcohol.
Date Added: 2011-09-29 10:32:55
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Tags: Pizza, America, USA, United States, Pepperoni, Food

Fact Page: 50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
Date Added: 2011-04-30 13:39:56
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An acute overdose of caffeine, usually in excess of about 300 milligrams, dependent on body weight and level of caffeine tolerance, can result in a state of central nervous system over-stimulation called caffeine intoxication (DSM-IV 305.90), or colloquially the �caffeine jitters�. The symptoms of caffeine intoxication are not unlike overdoses of other stimulants. It may include restlessness, nervousness, excitement, euphoria, insomnia, flushing of the face, increased urination, gastrointestinal disturbance, muscle twitching, a rambling flow of thought and speech, irritability, irregular or rapid heart beat, and psychomotor agitation. In cases of much larger overdoses, mania, depression, lapses in judgment, disorientation, disinhibition, delusions, hallucinations, and psychosis may occur, and rhabdomyolysis (breakdown of skeletal muscle tissue) can be provoked.

Tags: Overdose, Intoxication, Caffeine, Coffee, Tea

Fact Page: You can overdose on caffeine.
Date Added: 2011-02-26 10:47:28
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Tags: Food, Mouth, Stomach, Digestion

Fact Page: It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
Date Added: 2011-01-20 18:13:56
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Tags: McDonalds, BigMac, Sesame Seed, Average, Useless

Fact Page: On average there are 180 sesame seeds on a bun of a BigMac.
Date Added: 2011-01-19 04:19:26
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Tags: Water, Drinking Water, Drinking, Drink, Hydration, Bacteria

Fact Page: There are about 100,000 bacteria in one litre of drinking water.
Date Added: 2011-01-04 12:16:22
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Tags: Milk, Sunlight, Daylight, Vitamin B, Vitamin

Fact Page: Within 2 hours of standing in daylight, milk loses between half and two-thirds of its vitamin B content.
Date Added: 2011-01-02 22:17:32
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Absinthe is historically described as a distilled, highly alcoholic (45%-74% ABV) beverage. It is an anise-flavoured spirit derived from herbs, including the flowers and leaves of the herb Artemisia absinthium, commonly referred to as "grande wormwood", together with green anise and sweet fennel. Absinthe traditionally has a natural green colour but can also be colourless. It is commonly referred to in historical literature as la fée verte (the Green Fairy).

Although it is sometimes mistakenly called a liqueur, absinthe is not bottled with added sugar and is therefore classified as a spirit. Absinthe is unusual among spirits in that it is bottled at a very high proof but is normally diluted with water when consumed.

Absinthe originated in the canton of Neuchatel in Switzerland. It achieved great popularity as an alcoholic drink in late 19th- and early 20th-century France, particularly among Parisian artists and writers. Owing in part to its association with bohemian culture, consumption of absinthe was opposed by social conservatives and prohibitionists. Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Amedeo Modigliani, Vincent van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Aleister Crowley, and Alfred Jarry were all known drinkers of absinthe.

Absinthe has been portrayed as a dangerously addictive psychoactive drug. The chemical thujone, present in small quantities, was blamed for its alleged harmful effects. By 1915, absinthe had been banned in the United States and in most European countries including France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although absinthe was vilified, no evidence has shown that it is any more dangerous than ordinary spirits. Its psychoactive properties, apart from those of alcohol, have been much exaggerated.

A revival of absinthe began in the 1990s, when countries in the European Union began to reauthorize its manufacture and sale. As of February 2008, nearly 200 brands of absinthe were being produced in a dozen countries, most notably in France, Switzerland, Spain, and the Czech Republic.

Tags: Absinthe, Alcohol, Wormwood, Hallucinogen, Hallucination

Fact Page: Absinthe is a high volume alcoholic drink (up to 89.9% in the UK) which contains a hallucinogenic ingredient called Wormwood and is banned in the United States.
Date Added: 2010-12-03 17:30:45
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Tags: Coca Cola, Coca, Cocaine

Fact Page: Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
Date Added: 2010-06-27 13:01:10
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Tags: Potato Chips, Snack, Sales Fact

Fact Page: The Number One Selling Snack in the US is potato chips
Date Added: 2010-01-09 06:31:22
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Fact Page: With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: Watermelons can cost up to $100 in Japan!
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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