Food Facts

Sloths take up to 30 days to fully digest a single meal.

Potato chips are the number one selling snack in the United States, with Americans consuming over 1.5 billion pounds annually.

A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.

The average American eats nearly one ton (about 2,000 pounds) of food every year.

Richard Nixon liked ketchup on his cottage cheese.

It takes 24 to 72 hours for food to completely pass through your digestive system, with most of that time spent in the large intestine.

The Japanese have a popular dish called 'chicken rice' where ketchup is used to flavor fried rice, often served wrapped in an omelet as 'omurice.'

Jon Bon Jovi has a restaurant that has no prices; guests pay whatever they can or volunteer in exchange for their meal.

On average, a person will spend about five years of their lifetime eating meals.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main ingredients.

The average economy airline meal costs the airline $4-15. The average first class meal: $100 or more.

Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva.

Corn Flakes were invented by John Harvey Kellogg, who believed bland foods like cereals could help reduce sexual urges as part of his strict health reform ideology.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 35 tons of food—roughly the weight of 7 adult elephants.

Rice is the chief food for half the people of the world.

Lima beans contain cyanide!

It takes an average of 100 gallons of water to produce just one pound of food, with some crops requiring far more—a single pound of beef needs nearly 1,800 gallons.

Netflix has invented a 'Netflix and Chill' button that can be programmed to automatically order food, dim the lights, silence your phone, and put Netflix on the TV.

Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate, totaling approximately 2.8 billion pounds annually.

Avocados are poisonous to birds.

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Pumpkin storage rule: the harder the shell, the longer the pumpkin lasts. A hard shell indicates full maturity—and darker orange color is often (but not always) a sign of that maturity.

Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!