- Eating lollipops is just swallowing flavored saliva.
- Shredded cheese has cellulose, which is a wood product (aka sawdust) so that it doesn’t stick together.
- It is possible to turn peanut butter into diamonds.
- Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and kohlrabi all come from the same plant species.
- A potato is 80% water and 20% solid.
- Pineapple juice can help tenderize meat.
- Strawberries are not technically berries, but bananas are.
- Apples have small traces of cyanide in their seeds.
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- Baby carrots are just regular carrots that have been shaved down to the bite-size pieces we see bagged in stores.
- Altitude can change taste.
- An ear of corn used to be way smaller than it currently is.
- Humans share around 60% of DNA with bananas.
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