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Interesting Food Facts
Fun Facts about Food
Facts for Food for children

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Wasted food has a big impact on climate change. If it ends up in a landfill site it will rot and release Methane (a damaging greenhouse gas) into the environment. The best thing we can do with our food is enjoy it.

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Fruitcorp Fresh Kids Club - Come on board and join our fun and magical journey through the Fruitcorp Fresh Disney Kids Club. Here you will learn interesting facts on food and healthy living along with great games to play and experiments and recipes to try.

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Food did you know facts - Over 980 interesting fun facts and figures to keep you entertained for hours!!

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Fun Food Facts for Kids - Interesting Facts about Food & Nutrition

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Enjoy these fun food facts for kids. Learn a range of interesting facts about food and nutrition, topics that play an important role in everyone's lives. What foods are popular around the world? Is it common to have a food allergy? What is a vegan? Find out the answers to these questions and much more.

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1. The oldest evidence for soup is from 6,000 B.C. and calls for hippopotamus and sparrow meat.

2. Pringles once had a lawsuit trying to prove that they weren't really potato chips.

3. Pound cake got its name from its original recipe, which called for a pound each of butter, eggs, sugar, and flour.

4. Ripe cranberries will bounce like rubber balls.

5. An average ear of corn has an even number of rows, usually 16.

6. Consuming dairy may cause acne.

12. About 70% of olive oil being sold is not actually pure olive oil.

13. Real aged balsamic vinegar actually costs anywhere from $75 to $400 or more.

14. Store bought 100% "real" orange juice is 100% artificially flavored.

15. The most expensive pizza in the world costs $12,000 and takes 72 hours to make.

16. The winner of the 2013 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest consumed 69 hot dogs in 10 minutes.

17. The Dunkin' Donuts in South Korea offer doughnut flavors such as Kimchi Croquette and Glazed Garlic.

18. Chocolate was once used as currency.

19. There is an amusement park in Tokyo that offers Raw Horse Flesh-flavored ice cream.

20. The tea bag was created by accident, as tea bags were originally sent as samples.

21. A Cinnabon® Classic has less sugar than a 20-oz. bottle of Pepsi.

22. Castoreum, which is used as vanilla flavoring in candies, baked goods, etc., is actually a secretion from the anal glands of beavers.

23. Humans are born craving sugar.

24. Radishes are members of the same family as cabbages.

25. The red food-coloring carmine - used in Skittles and other candies - is made from boiled cochineal bugs, a type of beetle.

26. Casu Marzu is a cheese found in Sardinia that is purposely infested with maggots.

27. The softening agent L-cysteine - used in some bread - is made from human hair and duck feathers.

28. The potentially fatal brain mushroom is considered a delicacy in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the upper Great Lakes region of North America.

39. Fruit-flavored snacks are made with the same wax used on cars.

40. Peanuts aren't nuts, they're legumes.

41. No matter what color Fruit Loop you eat, they all taste the same.

42. The most expensive fruit in the world is the Japanese Yubari cantaloupe, and two melons once sold at auction for $23,500.

43. Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

44. When taken in large doses nutmeg works as a hallucinogen.

45. Eating bananas can help fight depression.

46. Canola oil was originally called rapeseed oil, but rechristened by the Canadian oil industry in 1978 to avoid negative connotations. "Canola" is short for "Canadian oil."

47. Honey is made from nectar and bee vomit.

48. Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same thing.

49. Chuck E. Cheese pizza restaurants were created by the inventor of the Atari video game system, Nolan Bushnell.

50. The twists in pretzels are meant to look like arms crossed in prayer.

51. "SPAM" is short for spiced ham.

52. To add nutrition, a lot of milk, juice, and yogurts enrich the food with EPA and DHA omega-3 fatty acids. In other words, your OJ contains fish oil.

53. There's an enzyme in pineapple called bromelain that helps to break down proteins and can also ruin your tastebuds.

54. Apples float in water, because 25% of their volume is made of air.

55. The popsicle was invented by an 11-year-old in 1905.

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1. The oldest evidence for soup is from 6,000 B.C. and calls for hippopotamus and sparrow meat. 2. Pringles once had a lawsuit trying to prove that they weren't really potato chips. 3. Pound cake got its name from its original recipe, which called for a pound each of butter, eggs, sugar, and flour.