KNOW ABOUT THE FOOD THAT YOU CONSUME………

Chocolate

For the first time “Hot chocolate” was made by the Mayan and Aztec cultures. This precursor to hot chocolate was used in religious ceremonies like coming of age celebrations and weddings. Even chocolates were once used as currency.

White Chocolate

White chocolate is not really chocolate. White chocolate doesn’t contain the dark chocolate cacao solids that mean it’s not chocolate. It does contain a ton of cocoa butter.

Lollipops

Lollipops have been around thousands of years. There is a rumour that cavemen invented it by collecting honey from beehives with a stick then licked the stick to eat them. Honey never rots. It could even last for 3000 years.

Jelly Beans

Jelly beans shine with the same thing that makes your gel manicure shiny: shellac. It is given on your food label under the guise of “confectioner’s glaze.”

Ice Cream

The most expensive ice cream sundae is found at Serendipity 3 in New York City. The sundae consists of Tahitian vanilla cream with a 23-karat gold leaf, almonds, caviar, and a sugar-encrusted orchid. It takes almost eight hours to make. It is served in a $350 Baccarat crystal goblet (with more gold leaf) and an 18-karat gold spoon.

Ice creams used in television commercials are actually mashed potatoes so that they do not melt during the shoot.

Gelatin

Products with gelatin aren’t exactly vegetarian or vegan-friendly because Gelatin is made from boiling skin, cartilage and bones from animals such as pigs, cows, and chickens.

Carrots                                                                 

We have noticed that most of the carrots are orange but it wasn’t always that way. It just turns out. The original carrots were purple and yellow. Have you keeping on believing the fact that carrots improve your night vision. That is absolutely false but if you eat too many carrots, your skin may turn orange.

Apples

Some apples that we buy in the supermarket can be over a year old!  They were held in cold storage making them fresh longer. Apples belong to a rose family is one more exciting fact. Apples can wake up you more efficiently than a hot coffee.

Nutmeg

A lot of spice can be a bad thing for health. Nutmeg is no exception. Having two or three spoons of it can actually cause hallucinations!

Cucumber

Cucumber has 96 per cent of water. Next time you’re feeling dehydrated try snacking on a cucumber.

Lemon

Have you ever noticed lemon floating on the water? that’s because they have a similar density to water.

Peanuts

Peanuts are actually an ingredient in dynamite. They have oil in them called glycerol that’s used to create nitroglycerin, a key ingredient in dynamite. Peanuts are not actually nuts. They are legumes.

Tea Bags

Brits are famous for their tea obsession but it was an American who ultimately revolutionized the leafy drink. Thomas Sullivan of New York is credited with creating tea bags. He used to send samples of the tea product in silk bags and people started to throw them into the teapot. And, that’s how tea bags came to be. The rest is history.

Artificial vanilla flavour

Say ¨NO¨ when you bake or buy something vanilla-flavoured because artificial vanilla consists of castoreum, which is a product that comes from anal glands of a beaver’s butt.

Ketchup

During the 1830s ketchup was said to have medicinal properties. People believed that it would cure diarrhoea, indigestion, jaundice, and rheumatism.

– Saranya Nagarajan