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Just for the fun of it, I thought I'd share some interesting facts about common foods I ran across. Lots of surprises. Healthy eating and...Happy Spring!!

True Food Facts Did you know? - A strawberry isn’t a berry but a banana is. - Avocados and watermelon are berries, too. - Cashews grow on trees like this and the part that is not the nut is called the Cashew Apple. - That brussels sprouts grow in long stalks like this: - Ketchup used to be sold as medicine. - Carrots were originally purple. - McDonald’s sells 75 hamburgers every second of every day. - Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same thing. - Ripe cranberries will bounce like rubber balls. - An average ear of corn has an even number of rows, usually 16. - Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas. - Honey never spoils or molds. You can eat 32,000-year-old honey. - Peanuts are not nuts. They grow in the ground like this, so they are legumes. - Coconuts kill more people than sharks every year. So do cows. - Pound cake got its name from its original recipe, which called for a pound each of butter, eggs, sugar, and flour. - Honey is made from nectar and bee vomit. - Pineapples grow like this. - Kiwis grow on vines. - Ginger is the root of a plant. - Cinnamon is the inner part of this tree. - And artichokes are flowers that are eaten as buds. This is what they look like when flowered: - Apples, like pears and plums, belong to the rose family. - The official state VEGETABLE of Oklahoma is the watermelon. - Peas are one the most popular pizza toppings in Brazil! - There are over 7,500 varieties of apples throughout the world, and it would take you 20 years to try them all if you had one each day. - The twists in pretzels are made to look like arms crossed in prayer. Awe ;) - Canola oil was originally called rapeseed oil, but renamed by the Canadian oil industry in 1978 to avoid negative connotations. “Canola” is short for “Canadian oil.” - Finally, did you know no matter what color Fruit Loop you eat, they all taste the same.