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Bon Apetite – Fascinating Food Facts

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So, you work in the food industry? But, how much do you really know about food? Take a look at some fascinating facts we found about food!

The most expensive coffee in the world comes from civet (a cat sized mammal) poo – Selling mainly in the United States and Japan for $120-$600 USD per pound.
The first soup was made of hippopotamus.
Refried beans are only fried once – frijoles refritos actually means “well friend beans,” not re-fried.
The FDA allow you to sell bugs and rodent hairs for consumption.
Dynamite is commonly made with peanuts.
The popsicle was accidentally invented by an 11 year old in 1905. However, 18 years later he patented it as the “popsicle.”
The banana plant can grow as high as 20 feet tall – That’s as high as a two-story house.
Each man, woman, and child in America eats an average of 46 slices (23 pounds) of pizza a year
There are 7,000 varieties of apples grown in the world.
The potato was the first vegetable to be successfully grown in space.
An apple, when fresh, is made up of about 25% air.
Maine represents almost 90% of the nation’s lobster supply (40 million pounds annually), as well as producing almost all of the nation’s wild blueberries.
The amount of fields devoted to growing beans in MN would fill 110,000 football fields.
The largest squash to record grown weighed 962 pounds, which is the size of a baby elephant.

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