Interesting facts about nutrition in different countries. Fun Facts About Food and Drink: Things You Didn't Know Before

Everyone knows that a person cannot live without food. Food is an integral part of every person's life. There are such extraordinary dishes and products in the world that each of us could not even know about. Interesting Facts about food - these are the secrets of cooking, and the specifics of growing, and the origins of the appearance of products and dishes.

1.Soup " bird home", Which is very popular in China, is prepared from the nests of swifts.

2. The champagne in the glass starts to foam from dirt.

3. Fructose is a key ingredient in male sperm.

4. From a technical point of view, coffee is considered a fruit juice.

5. Onions are not endowed with taste, only smell.

6. Cucumbers are 95% liquid.

7) Drinking 100 cups of coffee in 4 hours is to die for.

8. On average, people spend about 5 years of their own life eating.

9.About 100 varieties of cabbage are found throughout the world.

10. Until recently, "sushi" was not called a dish, but a certain way of preserving fish.

11. Mandarin essential oil can boost your mood.

12.Macadamia is the most expensive nut the world.

13. In addition to yellow bananas, red bananas are popular.

14. Salo came not from Ukraine, but from Italy.

15 coconuts can be used to create a clean fuel that can be alternative option gasoline.

16.Cheese was first mentioned in ancient Egyptian papyrus, from that time appearance cheese has not changed in any way.

17. There are approximately 10,000 varieties of grapes in the world.

18. Dates rank first among all sweets in existence. They contain approximately 80% sugar.

19 Bananas attract mosquitoes, so you shouldn't eat them when going to the river.

20. Chickens today contain 200 times more fat than they did 40 years ago.

21. In order to quickly lose unnecessary calories, having a snack on fast food, you will have to run for about 8 hours.

22 In Japan, beer is considered the national drink.

23. In the magazine "Hostess" in 1902, it was possible to publish a recipe for making scrambled eggs from 5 thousand eggs.

24. A person who regularly eats chocolate and soon stops eating chocolate will experience withdrawal symptoms.

25. Sex and food at all times have been linked into a single concept. This is why foods that look like genitals are capable of inducing sex drive.

26. Caramel was invented by the Arabs, and once upon a time it was used as a means of depilation.

27.Drink in ancient times fresh milk was considered a luxury because it was difficult to maintain.

28 Beans in ancient times were considered symbols of the embryo.

29. Approximately 27 million Europeans eat daily at McDonald's.

30 Neil Armstrong ate turkey as his first dinner on the moon.

31. A huge amount food additives who are endowed bright color cause overexcitation.

32. Grapes in microwave oven able to explode.

33. President Richard Niels' favorite drink is dry martini.

34. Those people who drink coffee and have sex are much more likely to enjoy than those who do not drink coffee at all.

35. Mango has been known to people for over 4 thousand years.

36. The appearance of blue cheese is associated with a legend when a shepherd chased beautiful girl and left his breakfast in the cave.

37 In Spain in the 9th century, it was popular to eat the tongue of the whale.

38. Eskimos know how to make wine for their seagulls.

39. Until now, it is not known who became the inspiration for the creation of donuts.

40. In the 19th century, a turtle-like soup was cooked in Great Britain, which was created from cow embryos.

41 The Netherlands exports much more soy sauce than in Japan.

42. From the potatoes that were brought into the states, they first created a dessert dish.

43. In the Maldives, Coca-Cola is made from sea water.

44. In Asia, about 4 million cats are eaten annually.

45 Eating is prohibited in Saudi Arabia nutmeg because it is capable of causing hallucinations.

46.The banana tree is not really a tree, but a huge herb.

47.B eastern countries ketchup was originally conceived as a supplement to fish.

48 Japan and Sicily have a lot of popular dish is hedgehog caviar.

49 In New York, an omelet is sold for $ 1,000.

50 Apple pits contain cyanide.

51. Peanuts are used in the process of making dynamite.

52.Strawberry is considered to be the only fruit with seeds placed on the outside.

53. Honey has been produced by bees for 150 million years.

54 drinking every day sweet soda in a volume of 0.5 liters, you can become thicker by 31%.

55. Apple vodka is called Calvados.

57. about 44 billion noodles fast food people use for a year.

58. In Norway, a soup is made from beer, which has the name ölebrod.

59. There are about 20 thousand varieties of beer known in the world.

60. More than 40% of the almonds that are mined in the world go to the production of chocolate.

61. Sundae is able to relieve fatigue and stress.

62.The first collection of recipes for cooking was published in 62 AD. There were dishes that Claudius liked.

63. Poisonous lead was used by the Romans as a way to sweeten a dish.

64. In the Scandinavian states, it is popular to cook dishes from rotten and fermented fish.

65 The doctor, who was invited to the hopelessly ill boy, allowed him to eat whatever he wanted. The boy soon recovered completely.

66. After the advent of sugar, it was considered a luxury and it was fashionable among princes to have black teeth.

67.The biggest dish cooked in the world is considered to be a fried camel stuffed with chickens, eggs, and fish.

68. The oldest soup, which is confirmed by archaeologists, was cooked from a hippopotamus.

69. Peanut oil is a constituent of glycerin.

70. The average person eats about 20-25 tons of food in their entire life.

71 In Japan, they sell ice cream that tastes like wings, cactus, and buffalo tongue.

72. In Alaska, such a dish as fish heads is common.

73. In Madagascar, they eat zebra stew with the addition of tomato.

74. In Indonesia, smoked bats are sold in the middle of the streets.

75. In Spain, honey is added to breast milk replacer for newborns.

76. Cabbage was invented in China.

77 In ancient Rome, the woodpecker was considered a sacred bird, and it was strictly forbidden to eat it.

78. In composition grape juice there is a varnish solvent (ethyl acetate).

79. One bottle of Coca-Cola contains the same amount of caffeine as one cup of coffee.

80. Apples help you wake up early in the morning.

81. Refined sugar is the only product in the world that does not contain any nutrients.

82. A kilogram of chips is more expensive than a kilogram of potatoes.

83. Germany will not be able to meet dieters.

84. To clean teeth in Siberia, larch resin was used.

86 In Japan, to make the meat tastier, animals are killed at night.

87 There is a restaurant in America that serves food made from insects.

88. To avoid coughing, you need to eat chocolate and drink cocoa.

89 - The ancient Greeks used olive oil to lubricate their bodies in order to protect their bodies from the effects of cancer.

90 In the 1770s, for the first time, they began to create the well-known canned food in cans.

91. White wine is made from grapes of any variety and color.

92. Every year, people consume an estimated 567 billion chicken eggs.

93. Tomatoes in Russia were considered "crazy berries", and they were poisonous.

94. It is still unknown what pineapple is: a vegetable or a fruit.

95. From potatoes, people get fat like yeast, because they are high in starch.

96. If you eat a piece of chocolate between main meals, your appetite will decrease significantly.

97.Italians call one strand of pasta spaghetto.

98. Black and green olives are the fruit of the same tree.

99 In the cheese that was created in Soviet times, one could find plastic numbers.

100. With multiple daily use salt is considered a poison.

Food is an integral part of every person's life, which directly affects health and appearance. But how little we know about what we eat every day. Here we are talking not only about the benefits or harms, but also about the history, origin and amazing facts about food. We offer you to supplement your knowledge with interesting and sometimes unexpected information.

From the history

The following facts will help tell you about amazing stories the appearance of various foods and dishes, and learn about events or random adventures that they had to go through.

Decorating dishes with parsley has been widespread since the days of Ancient Rome, where plants were considered a talisman against unclean forces. Therefore, adding it to food was a sign of special respect for guests.
In 450 A.D. NS. the warriors-Huns kept the meat under the saddle of the horse: the juices of the meat were mixed with the sweat of the horse, the moisture evaporated and the result was jerky salted meat.
During the Renaissance, drinking beer was much safer than drinking water, since it completely destroyed the bacteria that provoke dysentery and cholera through fermentation.
Serving fish with a traditional lemon slice has been popular since the Middle Ages. Then it was believed that lemon juice can dissolve accidentally swallowed fish bone.

During the time of Ivan the Terrible, there were their own methods of smuggling: Russian ambassadors exported valuables from Muslim countries, hiding them in pork tenderloin... Naturally, the Muslims did not even approach the meat to check the cargo.
In the XVI century. the colonialists of South America discovered the capybara, an animal that leads a semi-aquatic lifestyle, and turned to the Pope with a request to recognize it as a fish in order to eat it during the fasting period. An amazing fact, but the head of the Catholic Church agreed to their request.
Sugar, after its appearance in Europe, was initially available exclusively to wealthy people. In this regard, teeth blackened from excess sugar were considered one of the signs of a person's high status.
At the beginning of the XIX century. oysters were considered by the British and French as food for the poor who could not afford meat. But due to the uncontrolled catch, their number sharply decreased, and by the second half of the 19th century. they have risen in price and become a delicacy.
In 1908, US tea merchant Thomas Salivan invented tea bags by mistake. He decided to use silk bags instead of boxes to send samples of his products to customers. But he could not have imagined that customers would completely dip a bag of tea into boiling water without opening it.

In 1912, Moscow celebrated the 100th anniversary of the exile of Napoleon, in honor of whom they made a puff pastry cake with cream in the shape of a triangle, symbolizing Napoleon's cocked hat. The pastry received the name of the same name, which has survived to our time, although today it usually has a rectangular shape.

Features of different products

Every day a person eats a variety of foods, not knowing what amazing properties she is endowed. The following facts about everyday food tell us something that many of us don't even know about:

IN egg yolks the content of nutrients and trace elements is much higher compared to proteins.
Lemon contains more sugar than strawberries, but due to great content citric acid this sweetness cannot be noticed.
Honey is the only product with an unlimited shelf life. Most old honey was discovered in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in 1922, which, after an examination, was found to be still usable.

Bell pepper is the leader in vitamin C content (340 mg), followed by parsley (150 mg). For comparison, lemon and orange contain 40 and 60 mg of vitamin C, respectively.
Potatoes, apples and onions are foods that cannot be distinguished from each other if they are eaten with closed eyes and a pinched nose. This amazing fact was confirmed by scientists after a series of experiments with a group of volunteers.
When chewing celery, a person spends more calories than the body gets from eating it.
The most expensive spice is saffron, which is obtained by drying the stamens of a plant of the crocus family. The price for 1kg can be up to $ 6,000.

There are about 7,500 apple varieties known in the world, the smallest of which are the size of a cherry, and the largest weigh more than 1 kg.
The pungency of chili peppers does not depend on color, but on size: the smaller the fruit, the sharper it is.
Dry wine gets its name from the fact that it contains completely (dry) fermented sugar.
Chicken tabaka has nothing to do with smoking, and its name appeared due to the erroneous pronunciation of the Georgian word "frying pan" - tapaki, which is used to prepare this dish.
Smokers are advised to limit their intake of carrots and tomatoes. They contain useful beta-carotene, which, after interacting with substances from tobacco smoke, turns into a carcinogen.

Local cuisines different parts lights differ significantly from each other. Amazing facts about food they talk about the diet, eating habits and traditions different nations and countries of the world:

In Japan, the diet of the population has long been dominated by seafood and seaweed, so in digestive system special microorganisms appeared in the Japanese, which contributed to the better breakdown and assimilation of such food in comparison with representatives of other nationalities.

In Kazakhstan, it is not customary to pour a full cup of tea for welcome guests. Thus, the owner leaves a reason to care for them, which is considered an honorable and pleasant experience.
In China, it is not customary to cut the noodles into pieces so as not to shorten your life, since the noodles are considered a symbol of longevity.
In Russia traditional kvass rarely appeals to foreigners. Most of them perceive the drink as a "cloudy sour slurry."

In Chile, it is not customary to eat with your hands: no matter what is put on a plate, a well-mannered person will always use cutlery.
In the USA, there is an ice cream cemetery, where the names of tastes that have not been successful or have already lost their popularity appear on the tombstones.
IN Scandinavian countries recipes local cuisine provide for the use of spoiled fish: for the Icelandic hakarl you will need rotten shark meat, and for Swedish surstremming- sour herring.
On about. Fiji is unique dish, for the preparation of which the pig is not fed for a week, then the animal is allowed to eat the veal and sent to the slaughter after a few hours. Half-digested food is taken out of the stomach, which is subsequently used to prepare the main course.
On the territory of the European Union, legislation establishes that fruits include tomatoes, carrots, sweet potato, cucumbers, pumpkin, rhubarb and ginger. This is due to the fact that in the European Union it is legal to produce preserves and jams only from fruits.

Space food

Surely many people know that astronauts eat from tubes, but besides this, a number of amazing facts can be added about space food:

The diet of modern astronauts can be equated with a restaurant menu. It consists of 200 meals and drinks, which are repeated every week. Despite the amazing variety, the fact remains: the taste of food is different from the usual.
The main task of the developers of the space menu is to strive not to expand the assortment, but to maximize the likeness of the "earthly" taste.
In a day, astronauts eat about 1.5 kg of food so that their calorie intake is roughly equivalent to the Earth's level.

Space bread is packed in packages that are enough for 1 bite. Such packaging allows you to protect astronauts from accidents associated with flying in zero gravity crumbs that can get into the respiratory tract.
Sublimation is an essential procedure for food before being sent into space, which consists in dehydration through freezing and subsequent drying. This fact will seem surprising, but the most difficult preparation is freeze-dried tea.
The most delicious dish space cuisine, according to astronauts, is freeze-dried cottage cheese with nuts and cranberries.

Space food is considered the most natural and safest in the world. It is carefully checked for the absence of unnecessary chemical additives, since it is impossible to predict the reaction of these substances in space.

Throughout the history of their existence, people have always done 3 things - get married, die and eat. AND interesting facts about food during this time, it has accumulated very, very much. Here are some of them:

1. In England in the 16th century the most trendy dish among the aristocracy and the golden youth was "surprise cake"... When such a pie was cut at feasts in front of guests, live birds flew out of it!

A modern pie with no surprises

2. Cheese is recognized as the most coveted food for thieves around the world. It is stolen from shops most often.

3. Until 2011, Russian legislation referred beer and all drinks in which less than 10 degrees, to non-alcoholic.

4. Bananas, like watermelons, are actually berries. But strawberries - no! It's a receptacle. And about the banana: a banana plant is a giant herb, and bananas are its berries. By definition, a berry is "a soft, juicy fruit containing several seeds." And the herb is "a plant with a fleshy, but not woody stem, which, after the plant blooms and produces seeds, dies down to the ground."

Banana ice cream with raspberries

5. The sandwich was invented by a man named Earl Sandwich. He was an avid poker player and refused to leave the gambling table for food.

6. Are you for real can hear the rhubarb grow! Z Vuk arises from the opening buds. It is said that rhubarb constantly squeaks during the growing season.

7. Large bag of pistachios(like any a large number of these nuts) can catch fire at any moment.

Pistachio salad

8. From peanut butter you can do not only sandwiches and snacks, but also diamonds! According to one hypothesis, diamonds are formed from carbon under the action of a very high pressure... Almost all food products contain carbon, so researchers at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut were able to produce an artificial diamond in the laboratory from ordinary peanut butter. It can be obtained from any oil, even the one you usually eat for breakfast. And then already in the usual way diamond turns into diamond!

9. Mushrooms cannot be overcooked.

10. Loud music can make you drink more and more often..

Whiskey

11. Lobsters and oysters were once food proletariat.

12. Fruit stickers are actually edible. Manufacturers claim all stickers are made from edible paper. And the glue on the sticker is edible. This paper is also used as a decoration for cakes.

13. Astronaut John Young dropped a bean and beef sandwich into outer space in 1965.

Sandwich

14. If there were no flies, there would be no chocolate... All the good things in life have to be paid for. Chocolate gnats have long loved to pollinate cocoa trees, and carry pollen from one plant to another. When the cocoa beans are harvested, insects are also part of the crop.

15. In the Middle Ages hot pepper was such an expensive and valuable commodity that its accepted as payment for loans and taxes.

Food takes important place in the life of any person and animal. It is impossible to exist without food. We invite you to find out interesting facts about food and drink.

Food Facts

Let's start with the historical aspects. Food has always been of interest to all generations.

Many ancient cultures believed that an upright cut apple bears a resemblance to female genitalia.
Some scientists believe that they arose due to the transfer of chewed food by mothers to babies from mouth to mouth.
Seafood such as oysters are considered aphrodisiacs. Casanova treated his future partners to seafood.
In ancient times, fresh milk was considered a luxury and abundance item due to the difficulty of preserving it.
The first soup appeared more than five thousand years ago. It was made from hippopotamus meat.
They began to decorate food with greens in ancient Rome. This was considered a talisman against the machinations of the devil.
It was believed that lemon juice could dissolve swallowed fish bones. That is why in the Middle Ages, fish was necessarily served with lemon.
An unusual fact about food is what Hippocrates considered good and healthy dish for sick broth from a young dog.
Astronauts believe that the most delicious freeze-dried product is cottage cheese and cranberries.
Surprisingly, the banana is not a fruit, but a berry.
Neil Armstrong dined on a bag of turkey for the first time on the moon.
Avocados should not ripen on the tree. To be edible, they need to lie down and ripen. At the same time, the tree is used as a warehouse - the avocado is stored after ripening for several months.

Interesting facts about food in different countries

Eating poppy seed buns frequently can show a positive drug test result.
In the Scandinavian countries, dried fish dishes are considered a delicacy.
Sugar used to be a luxury in Europe. Then the rich had a strange fashion to demonstrate their position, they painted their teeth black.
IN Japanese cuisine there is a puffer fish delicacy. This fish is poisonous and improper cooking can cause death.
Cranberry translated from English means "berry of the crane".
In the 16th century, peas appeared in France. It was brought from Italy by Catherine de Medici after the wedding with Henry II. Thanks to her, peas have become a delicacy.

Interesting, some silly, some funny, some scientifically and historically confirmed - facts in one word.

2. The crusaders brought sugar to Europe. Before that, honey was used in Europe to sweeten food and drinks.

3. Despite the frequent appearance of oranges in famous works of the Renaissance, they were not eaten at the Last Supper simply because they were not in the Middle East during Christ's life. Citrus fruits were introduced to Mediterranean countries from China only 1000 years later. The artists, however, were most likely influenced by the stories of the Crusaders, who said that they saw oranges "in the holy lands."

4. The Romans used poisonous lead as a sweetener.

5. Sour cabbage was invented in China. Shi Huang Ti, the first emperor of China, soaked cabbage in wine and fed it to the slaves who worked on the Great Wall of China.

6. But when ketchup was created in China (and this was in 1690), it did not contain tomatoes. It consisted of pickled fish, shellfish and spices.

7. The popularity of spinach as a "fortifying" vegetable stemmed from a typo in a nutrition book. The iron in spinach was misplaced, so spinach was recorded as having ten times more iron than it actually did.

8. Vitellus, the former emperor of Rome in AD 69, is said to have spent over £ 1,200 a day on food. He could overpower 1000 oysters in a day, and great amount other delicacies. After a short reign, he was overthrown by Roman citizens, outraged by his excesses.

9. Celebrating the victory over Pompey, Caesar threw a feast in which 150,000 guests were seated at 22,000 tables. The holiday lasted 2 days, and the list of what was eaten was 20 people over three days. To celebrate, during the feast, Caesar also exempted all poor families in the Empire from rent for a year.

10. The controversy over who invented pasta- Italians, Arabs or Chinese, solved scientifically. In the floodplain of the Yangtze, in China, they found an earthen bowl with fossilized spaghetti noodles up to half a meter long. The find is 4,000 years old: this is much older than the first evidence of the appearance of noodles in Europe.

11. Tortured by a cough? Eat chocolate and drink cocoa! The alkaloid theobromine, found in cocoa fruits, is one-third more effective against persistent coughs than codeine.

12. Tanning enthusiasts should eat pizza more often in the summer. German scientists have discovered components in pizza that protect the skin from sunburn. One medium-sized pizza lasts two weeks for protection.

13. The ancient Greeks were right to anoint their bodies with olive oil. So they protected themselves from skin cancer. Japanese scientists found in olive oil antioxidants that neutralize free radicals that appear under the influence of ultraviolet radiation and damage the DNA of skin cells.

14. Robin Southgate, an English student, invented a toaster that prints the weather forecast on slices of chl :). The toaster is connected to a computer with Internet access. In the early morning, the computer learns the weather forecast for the day and burns the symbol of the sun, clouds or clouds with rain on white bread.

15. Smokers should not eat carrots and tomatoes. The beta-carotene contained in them, which usually protects cells from malignant degeneration, is harmful to smokers. It reacts in the smoker's body with carcinogens present in tobacco smoke, and itself turns into a carcinogen.

16. The Sun King Louis XIV always ate only with his hands. In doing so, he could eat a cup chicken soup without spilling a drop.

17. The sandwich was invented by John Montague, the fourth Earl of Sandwich.

18. Coffee drinkers have sex much more often and enjoy more than those who do not drink coffee.

19. There are more than 20,000 types of beer in the world.

20. Cucumbers are 96% water.

21. For the first time rice was brought to Russia during the time of Peter I. Then it was called "Saracen millet".

22. During his life, a person eats about 40 tons of various food.