Some food facts are so bizarre that they sound completely made up. Do bananas really have radioactive properties? Were lobsters once actually served to prisoners, who moaned they got them too much? Here, we've dug up 72 fascinating nuggets of food-focused information that you’ll genuinely struggle to believe – yet all have been verified as facts.

Click or scroll through our gallery to discover the most incredible food facts out there, counting down to the most surprising of them all.

The facts selected have been verified and cross-referenced using authoritative sources, including expert analysis by nutritionists, published data and statistics.

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