10 odd facts about food that you may not know

10 odd facts about food that you may not know

Here's the nutritional knowledge you can bride on at the next party or have friends with friends. Do you have a look at what you really eat?

1. People are fed with sugarcane
   Have you developed a sugar addiction? Well, it's really congenital. Studies show that newborns strongly prefer sweet tastes compared to salt and bitter taste.

2. Chocolate has been used as a currency
   During the Aztecs, cocoa beans were so sought after that they were used as a way to trade goods.

3. Each course you eat is a clone
   Almost all of the world's banana exports come from a single cultivated variety called Cavendish. Cavendish bananas are seedless and therefore sterile, which means that farmers need to clone the plant.

4. Minor roots do not exist
   In spite of its small name, mini-nuts are made of defective carrots that have been sliced, peeled and formed into smaller pieces.

5. Pineapples grow on shrubs
   Did you know that the Hawaiian pizza's pride grows out of the field from a leafy plant that can grow up to 1.5 meters long?

6. Oysters live when you eat them
   Why? Dead oysters can contain a large number of bacteria that can make you very sick, therefore the oyster lives when you eat it.

7. Carrots were initially purple
   The orange carrot only exists because Dutch growers cultivated mutated strains of the purple variety in the late 1700s.

8. Chocolate can kill dogs
   Many people are sure that you should not give chocolate to dogs, but you know why? Chocolate contains theobromine, a bitter chemical found in cocoa beans that has been linked to diseases in dogs. In sufficient amounts, the toxic reaction to the chemical can cause serious damage.

9. Ketchup was sold as medicine
   Even because it had been difficult to survive without ketchup, but before that, the red gold was actually sold as medicine. Concentrated in pill form, it was thought that ketchup could treat diarrhea and indigestion.

10. Chilli fools you to believe it burns
    The burning sensation you experience comes from a chemical compound found in the paprika called capsaicin. Capsaicin binds to the pain receptors on the nerves, which causes your brain and body to react in a similar way as if there was something hot in your mouth.