1.
When you eat a pineapple, it's "eating" you back.
2.
You can taste garlic with your feet.
3.
Eating cooked tomatoes can lower your chances of developing prostate cancer.
4.
Some ranch dressings are dyed with a chemical compound also used in sunscreen.
5.
Consuming too much nutmeg can make you high.
6.
Graham crackers were invented to try and stop people from experiencing sexual urges.
7.
Scientists have used peanut butter to make diamonds.
9.
Hawaiian pizza was not actually invented in Hawaii.
10.
Apples are a member of the rose family.
11.
Mountain Dew was originally made to be a mixer for whiskey.
12.
It takes more than 300 pounds per square inch to crack open a macadamia nut shell.
15.
Croissants are actually originally from Austria.
16.
Potatoes are 80% water.
17.
Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than plants.
18.
There are 15 billion jelly beans eaten every year.
19.
Pringles aren't really potato chips.
20.
Raw lima beans can be deadly.
21.
Chickpeas and garbanzo beans are the same thing.
22.
German chocolate cake isn't from Germany.
23.
Red candies are dyed using crushed up bugs.
25.
Raw oysters are actually still alive when you eat them.
26.
Applesauce was the first food eaten by an American in space.
27.
Cotton candy was invented by a dentist.
29.
Finally, seaweed is used in many dairy products.
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