Coffee is a fruit and other unbelievably true food facts
Very strange – but completely true
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Vinegar makes chips healthier
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Bacon was one of the first foods eaten on the moon
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McDonald’s once released a salad with more calories than a Big Mac
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It's illegal to wash eggs in the UK
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Only Diet Coke cans float in water
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Orange juice contains almost as much sugar as cola
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An ear of corn always has an even number of rows
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Listen carefully and you can hear rhubarb growing
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Chocolate doesn’t give you acne
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Potatoes absorb wi-fi signals in the same way as humans
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Eating late won't make you put on weight
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You can still be over the limit the next day
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Eating cholesterol-rich foods doesn’t raise your blood cholesterol
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Mushrooms are virtually impossible to overcook
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The darker the drink, the worse the hangover
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Coconut oil has more saturated fat than butter
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Some sweeteners have a laxative effect
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Potatoes don't always count towards your five-a-day
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There are a million bubbles in a glass of Champagne
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Tea bags were an accident
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Watercress helps your body detox
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Water isn’t the only way to stay hydrated
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Brightly coloured foods might make kids cranky
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The humble sandwich was invented by an earl
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Brazil nuts are high in selenium
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Milk isn’t naturally rich in vitamin D
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Vegetable oil is just as good as olive oil
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Apples contain a lot of air
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Skimmed milk creates the best foam for coffee
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The fuzz on peaches protects them from rotting
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The fat content of cream varies from country to country
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Soya milk has the same protein count as cows' milk
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Cucumber is nearly all water
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Tomatoes taste best stored out of the fridge
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Many popular fruits belong to the rose family
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Greens should be boiled in hot water; potatoes in cold
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Ripe cranberries bounce
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Oklahoma’s state vegetable is a watermelon
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Chicken livers contain more iron than steak
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Vegans could've been known as 'benevores'
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A tomato is a fruit
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It takes 12 honey bees to produce a single teaspoon
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Hay fever symptoms can predict food allergies
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Honey pretty much never goes off
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Beyond the age of 30 your bones only get weaker
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Dried thyme is 45 times richer in iron than beef
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Mushrooms make vitamin D in sunlight
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One carrot provides your RDA of vitamin A
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There are fewer calories in nuts than it says on the packet
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Pasta is less fattening when cold
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Red peppers have almost 2.5 times more vitamin C than oranges
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You can make chalk from eggshells
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White chocolate isn’t really chocolate at all
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Carrots can turn you orange
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Coffee is really a fruit
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Almonds have twice as much calcium as milk
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Washing your greens won’t remove E. coli
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Cheese is the most stolen food in the world
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Oysters were once a poor man's food
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Sugar doesn’t make kids hyperactive...
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Lobsters used to be prison food
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A bag of crisps has as much vitamin C as an apple
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Peanuts aren’t nuts
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Bananas are radioactive
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Too much nutmeg can be fatal
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