The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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Vampire bats adopt orphans, and are one of the few mammals known to risk their own lives to share food with less fortunate roost-mates.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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Coffee comes from an edible fruit. The coffee cherry is sweet and tastes like watermelon, rosewater, and hibiscus all at once.
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One jar of Nutella is sold every 2.5 seconds throughout the world.
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Mangoes enhance a marijuana high, allowing users to get ‘higher’ more effectively.
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Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs, etc… Free to “anyone and everyone.” If successful, it will be the first “food forest” of the nation.
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