Food can either be a nutritious meal or a guilty pleasure! We all have our weaknesses when it comes to what we like to eat. Some of those foods, whether they’re healthy or not, have interesting facts about them that you never would have guessed or thought of. For example, did you know that ranch dressing is dyed? You’d be surprised to find out what it’s dyed with! Find out the reason why crackers have holes in them, and the actual origin of American cheese – hint: it’s not from America.
If you’ve only got a minute spare, you can check out 5 favorite fun food facts from this list! Whatever your taste, these interesting food facts will amaze and enlighten you, so without further ado here are the top 12 random facts about food!
1. Pound cake got its name from its recipe.
The early recipes of pound cake called for one pound of butter, one pound of eggs, and one pound of sugar. That’s a huge cake!
2. Most supermarket wasabi is actually horseradish.
Real wasabi is challenging to make and expensive. As an alternative, most wasabi for sale is colored horseradish with flavorings.
3. The most expensive pizza in the world costs $12,000 dollars.
That’s because it takes 72 hours to make, and it can only be made in your home by 3 Italian chefs.
The pizza is topped with 3 types of caviar, buffalo mozzarella, lobster from Norway and Cilento, and pink Australian sea salt.
4. Ranch dressing is dyed.
One ingredient in ranch is titanium dioxide which is used to make it look whiter. It’s the same ingredient that is used in sunscreen and paint for coloring.
5. One fast-food burger can have meat from 100 different cows.
It sounds like a crazy amount, but the ground beef used to make burgers, both in fast food places and grocery stores, is made of a collection of muscle tissues.
6. Fruit-flavored snacks shine because of car wax.
Yep, the same wax that is used on cars, carnauba wax, is the same type of wax that is used to give gummy candy a glossy sheen. Not sure how I feel about that!
7. Nutmeg is a hallucinogen.
If you ingest nutmeg in large doses, it works like a hallucinogen due to a natural compound called myristicin.
It has mind-altering effects if taken in large doses.
8. Crackers have holes in them for a reason.
During the baking process, if the crackers have holes in them, it prevents air bubbles from ruining the product.
9. Ketchup used to be used as a medicine.
Back in the early 1800s, people thought tomatoes had medicinal qualities. One doctor claimed they could treat diarrhea and indigestion, so he made a recipe for a type of tomato ketchup which then became a pill.
10. White chocolate isn’t chocolate.
Its name is deceiving because white chocolate doesn’t have any components of regular chocolate. It’s really just a mixture of sugar, milk, vanilla, lecithin, and cocoa butter.
11. Farmed salmon is dyed pink
Wild salmon is naturally pink because of all the shrimp they eat. Meanwhile, farm-raised salmon have a different diet and end up being white. However, they are fed specific plant pigments to get the same hue as wild salmon.
12. The red food dye for Skittles is made from boiled beetles.
A common red food dye, carminic acid, is made from the crushed bodies of a beetle called the Dactylopius coccus. This acid is used in maraschino cherries, strawberry and raspberry-flavored candy, and lipstick.
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