Food Facts for Kids
Tasty facts about the food we eat
In tropical countries, oranges often stay green even when fully ripe. The orange colour develops only in cooler climates where temperatures drop.
Milbenkäse, a German cheese, is deliberately made using live cheese mites. The tiny creatures digest the surface of the cheese and give it a distinctive flavour.
Lettuce belongs to the daisy family, Asteraceae. If you let a lettuce plant flower, it produces small yellow blooms that look like tiny daisies.
To produce just one jar of honey (about 450 grams), honeybees must visit approximately two million flowers and fly a combined distance equal to travelling around the Earth twice.
By weight, saffron is more expensive than gold. It takes about 75,000 crocus flowers — hand-picked — to produce just 450 grams of the spice.
Botanically, bananas are berries, but strawberries are not. A true berry develops from a single flower with one ovary, which bananas do and strawberries do not.
A pineapple plant takes about two to three years to produce a single fruit. Each plant only grows one pineapple at a time.
Crisps (known as potato chips in America) were reportedly invented in 1853 by a chef who sliced potatoes paper-thin and fried them to annoy a fussy customer.
Dark chocolate contains flavonoids, which are natural compounds that can help improve blood flow and lower blood pressure when eaten in moderation.
Apples are about 25 per cent air, which is why they float in water and why bobbing for apples works as a game.