Some Food Trivia
May 6th, 2008 at 11:02am
Most people love eating different types of foods except those who suffer from the wrong conception that food causes gaining huge weights. But here, I am not going to discuss or argue about food and its relation with weight loss or gain.
Instead, I am going to present to my readers some mysterious facts, trivia and history that you might have not known earlier.
- The first ice-cream soda was sold in 1874 in the U.S.
- There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes in the world.
- China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year. 25 million trees are chopped down to make the sticks.
- The Chinese first discovered the tea. actually, it was a Chinese Emperor who first tasted the brew in 2737 B.C. when some tea leafs accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
- Did you know that an onion, apple and potato all have the same taste? The difference in flavor are caused by their smell!!
I hope you have enjoyed reading these interesting facts about food. 
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