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Food—we eat it every day, but how much do you really know about the things you’re ingesting? Here’s a series of interesting food facts that’ll blow your mind, and probably make you question everything you put in your mouth from now on.
#1 Red Skittles get their colour from boiled beetles
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Carminic acid, also known as carmine, is the red food dye found in Skittles, maraschino cherries, lipstick and many other red things.
#2 Gummy bears are coated with the same wax used to coat vehicles.
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They’re both coated with carnauba wax to make them shiny.
#3 Potatoes can absorb and reflect WiFi
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Because of the high water content and chemical makeup of potatoes, they absorb and reflect radio and wireless signals.
#4 All bananas are clones
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The Cavendish banana was mass-produced because it doesn’t have seeds and is able to survive longer than other banana species. But since they don’t have seeds, the bananas need to be cloned by banana farmers.
#5 Most wasabi you find in restaurants or supermarkets are not real, but made of coloured horseradish instead.
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This is because cultivation of real wasabi is difficult and expensive.
#6 Scientists have figured out how to turn peanut butter into diamonds.
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Since peanut butter has a lot of carbon, scientists in Germany have turned it into diamonds!
#7 Oranges aren’t naturally orange
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Oranges grown in tropical climates never get cold enough to break down the chlorophyll in the fruit’s skin, meaning they become yellow or green when ripe. Many imported oranges get treated with ethylene gas to turn them orange.
#8 Most oysters you eat are still alive
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Oysters are stored under particularly regulated conditions because once they die, they’re not safe to eat anymore.
#9 Every colour of Fruit Loops tastes the same
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Tragic, we know right?
#10 Castoreum is a secretion that comes from anal glands of a beaver to mark its territory, and it’s used for food flavourings like vanilla
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And that’s all we gotta say about that one.
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