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INTERESTING FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YOUR DAILY FOOD
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There are two kinds of people in the world – the ones who eat to live and the others who live to eat! The first category considers food as merely a fuel to keep the body working. On the other hand, people in the second category think of food as the center of their universe! However, the one thing that they all have in common is a general lack of knowledge about food.
Here, we have put together a list of interesting food facts. Regardless of whether you eat for sustenance or for satisfying your soul, you would find these enlightening.
You can find out about an egg’s nutritional value by checking the color of the yolk.
Have you ever noticed how some egg yolks are dark orange in color while others are soft yellow? You may have even seen ones that are red! Well, there’s a reason for it. Experts have always believed that the richer the color of the yolk, the more nutritional value it packs.
Eggs that are rich in carotenoids tend to have bright-colored yolks. Because of this, farmers can manipulate the color of the yolk by adjusting the diet and lifestyle of the chickens.
Lemons have a higher sugar content than strawberries.
Anyone who has tasted both lemons and strawberries will never once think that the former has more sugar than the latter. Though some strawberries are naturally tart, they are, for the most part, sweeter than lemons. However, lemons have 70% sugar content while strawberries have only 40%.
Lemons also have a higher glycemic load (GL) than strawberries.
The glycemic index can sometimes be flawed as it does not take into account usual portion sizes. To get more accurate results, researchers from Harvard University introduced glycemic load back in 1997. Unlike GI, glycemic load factors in the serving size when calculating the sugar content. The lower the ranking, the lesser the sugar content.
Now, if you compare a serving size of 120 g of lemons and strawberries, you will find that lemons have a glycemic load of 3 while strawberries have a GL of 1.
So, why do lemons taste more sour than strawberries despite having a higher glycemic load?
The reason you cannot taste the sugar in lemons is because of the high citric-acid content. Lemons have 3% to 6% citric acid which makes them taste sour. Strawberries, on the other hand, are much less acidic, which helps them to maintain their sweetness.
Potatoes are capable of absorbing and reflecting WiFi signals.
Back in 2012, American airplane manufacturer, Boeing used a creative method for testing out and improving the in-flight WiFi systems. Wireless signals can be tricky, and they can randomly fluctuate in enclosed spaces such as inside airplanes. The signals can also be disturbed when people move about inside the cabin. That is why the strength of the WiFi signals can vary greatly from one corner of the plane to another.
To fix this uneven distribution, engineers first needed to understand how the WiFi signals behave inside a packed airplane. However, finding human volunteers who will sit inside a prototype aircraft for endless hours at a time merely for data collection was next to impossible. That is why they decided to replace humans with something unusual – large bags of potatoes!
That means potatoes interact with WiFi signals the way human bodies do.
The researchers were able to gather weeks’ worth of valuable data that helped them understand how the WiFi signals fluctuate inside an airplane and how they can improve them.
Bananas also have a red variant that is known as “Dacca banana” or banana.”
Most of us are used to seeing yellow or green bananas, but did you know bananas also come in a red color? No, they are not synthetically dyed or chemically altered in any way. Bananas have over 1,000 variants, and red bananas are native to Southeast Asia. Though sold around the world, red bananas are especially popular in Central America.
Typically, red bananas tend to be plumper, heartier, and shorter than the regular Cavendish banana. Ripe red bananas have a thick peel that looks almost brick red, and the flesh tends to be semi-soft and ivory-colored. Though some say it tastes like an average banana, others say it is softer and creamier with a slight raspberry flavor.
Available throughout the year, red bananas are rich in nutrients. It has more vitamin C and beta car Though you can eat the ripe red banana fresh, it is mostly used in baking and for preparing desserts.
Honey is made of regurgitated nectar – aka bee vomit.
Most of us know that bees produce honey, but have you ever thought about how? While you may not find it especially pleasing, honey is actually regurgitated flower nectar. Even though it sounds gross, the process of making honey is actually quite fascinating.
Bees travel from flower to flower collecting nectar which they store inside a honey sac. A one-way valve separates the honey sac from the stomach.
When stored in the sac, nectar can pass into the stomach but never from the stomach to the sac. When running low on energy, bees actually transfer some of the nectar to their stomach to replenish their strength. Once they are back in the hive, scavenger bees regurgitate the nectar that is stored in the honey sac into the mouth of processor bees. The nectar then gets passed around from one processor bee to the next until it reaches the bee that is closest to the honeycomb where the nectar is finally stored.
More fun facts? Stay tuned on my next post.
Here, we have put together a list of interesting food facts. Regardless of whether you eat for sustenance or for satisfying your soul, you would find these enlightening.
You can find out about an egg’s nutritional value by checking the color of the yolk.
Have you ever noticed how some egg yolks are dark orange in color while others are soft yellow? You may have even seen ones that are red! Well, there’s a reason for it. Experts have always believed that the richer the color of the yolk, the more nutritional value it packs.
Eggs that are rich in carotenoids tend to have bright-colored yolks. Because of this, farmers can manipulate the color of the yolk by adjusting the diet and lifestyle of the chickens.
Lemons have a higher sugar content than strawberries.
Anyone who has tasted both lemons and strawberries will never once think that the former has more sugar than the latter. Though some strawberries are naturally tart, they are, for the most part, sweeter than lemons. However, lemons have 70% sugar content while strawberries have only 40%.
Lemons also have a higher glycemic load (GL) than strawberries.
The glycemic index can sometimes be flawed as it does not take into account usual portion sizes. To get more accurate results, researchers from Harvard University introduced glycemic load back in 1997. Unlike GI, glycemic load factors in the serving size when calculating the sugar content. The lower the ranking, the lesser the sugar content.
Now, if you compare a serving size of 120 g of lemons and strawberries, you will find that lemons have a glycemic load of 3 while strawberries have a GL of 1.
So, why do lemons taste more sour than strawberries despite having a higher glycemic load?
The reason you cannot taste the sugar in lemons is because of the high citric-acid content. Lemons have 3% to 6% citric acid which makes them taste sour. Strawberries, on the other hand, are much less acidic, which helps them to maintain their sweetness.
Potatoes are capable of absorbing and reflecting WiFi signals.
Back in 2012, American airplane manufacturer, Boeing used a creative method for testing out and improving the in-flight WiFi systems. Wireless signals can be tricky, and they can randomly fluctuate in enclosed spaces such as inside airplanes. The signals can also be disturbed when people move about inside the cabin. That is why the strength of the WiFi signals can vary greatly from one corner of the plane to another.
To fix this uneven distribution, engineers first needed to understand how the WiFi signals behave inside a packed airplane. However, finding human volunteers who will sit inside a prototype aircraft for endless hours at a time merely for data collection was next to impossible. That is why they decided to replace humans with something unusual – large bags of potatoes!
That means potatoes interact with WiFi signals the way human bodies do.
The researchers were able to gather weeks’ worth of valuable data that helped them understand how the WiFi signals fluctuate inside an airplane and how they can improve them.
Bananas also have a red variant that is known as “Dacca banana” or banana.”
Most of us are used to seeing yellow or green bananas, but did you know bananas also come in a red color? No, they are not synthetically dyed or chemically altered in any way. Bananas have over 1,000 variants, and red bananas are native to Southeast Asia. Though sold around the world, red bananas are especially popular in Central America.
Typically, red bananas tend to be plumper, heartier, and shorter than the regular Cavendish banana. Ripe red bananas have a thick peel that looks almost brick red, and the flesh tends to be semi-soft and ivory-colored. Though some say it tastes like an average banana, others say it is softer and creamier with a slight raspberry flavor.
Available throughout the year, red bananas are rich in nutrients. It has more vitamin C and beta car Though you can eat the ripe red banana fresh, it is mostly used in baking and for preparing desserts.
Honey is made of regurgitated nectar – aka bee vomit.
Most of us know that bees produce honey, but have you ever thought about how? While you may not find it especially pleasing, honey is actually regurgitated flower nectar. Even though it sounds gross, the process of making honey is actually quite fascinating.
Bees travel from flower to flower collecting nectar which they store inside a honey sac. A one-way valve separates the honey sac from the stomach.
When stored in the sac, nectar can pass into the stomach but never from the stomach to the sac. When running low on energy, bees actually transfer some of the nectar to their stomach to replenish their strength. Once they are back in the hive, scavenger bees regurgitate the nectar that is stored in the honey sac into the mouth of processor bees. The nectar then gets passed around from one processor bee to the next until it reaches the bee that is closest to the honeycomb where the nectar is finally stored.
More fun facts? Stay tuned on my next post.
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10 Fun Facts About Onions You Never Knew!
~1.4 mins read
1. According to the National Onion Association, U.S. onion consumption has increased 50% in the last 20 years. Maybe it’s because we put sauteed onions on all sorts of things now?
2. Wild onions grow on nearly every continent. And, because onions are one of the few vegetables that can easily be stored for the winter many, their popularity across the world grew right along with them.
3. Onions have been around since the Bronze Age! The oldest know onion harvest dates back to around 5,000 BC, over 7,000 years ago!
4. The sulfuric compounds in onions cause is to cry when we chop them. To cut down on the crying, chill the onion and cut into the root end of the onion last or cut them in a cold running water/apply vinegar on the chop board.
5. There are less than 1,000 onion farmers in the United States. That’s a pretty low number. Altogether, about 125,000 acres of onions are planted in the US each year.
6. The onion was worshiped by ancient Egyptians. They believed that its spherical shape and concentric rings symbolized eternity. They used to cover the tombs of their rulers with onion pictures and onions played a vital role in burial rituals. They believed that onions would help the dead succeed in the afterlife.
7. In an old English Rhyme, the thickness of an onion skin was thought to help predict the severity of the upcoming winter. Thin skins mean a mild winter is coming while thick skins indicate a rough winter ahead.
8. Eating parsley will help get rid of that pesky onion breath! Note to self.
9. Before it was known as the Big Apple, New York City was called the Big Onion because it was a place where you could peel off layer after layer without ever reaching the core.
10. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the largest onion ever grown as a whopping 10 pound, 14 ounce onion!
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