10 interesting facts about food

10 interesting facts about food

Food is an integral part of our life. I suggest you to learn about it some curious and quite interesting facts.

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1. Did you sometime think of how kisses appeared? Scientists have an assumption in this respect connected with food. They consider that, perhaps, kisses arose then when women began to chew food and to pass it to a mouth to the baby.

2. The biggest dish by the size which was cooked ever is the fried camel! Yes, yes, camel! Besides, he is fried to this day and give on a holiday table at Bedouin weddings. This dish is stuffed with the following: the whole ram, 60 eggs and also 20 hens also we designate.

3. The first caramel was intended not to eat it and to use for depilation of hair to the women who are in a harem.

4. So useful and rich dish as soup was prepared not less than 6 thousand years ago. Besides, it was cooked not from some little animals, and from hippopotamuses. Incredibly, but fact!

5. Earlier fish dishes were always served together with small lemon segment, and all because was considered that juice of a lemon is capable to dissolve accidentally swallowed stones of fish.

6. Actually the person perceives food not by the form, and on its smell. People are capable by means of the sense of smell not only to distinguish, but also to estimate not less than 20000 smells.

7. Famous Hippocrates considered by everything that soup which is cooked from a young puppy is very useful to the people having malfunctions with health.

8. Many people consider that bananas grow on a tree. Actually they are fruits of a huge grass. The banana plant lives a little and only once fructifies for all the life, but the amount of berries on it varies from 100 to 400.

9. At the time of the Middle Ages milk was considered as luxury, and all because people simply didn't know how to store it.

10. For the first time began to keep meat in 450 our era! It was spread under a horse saddle. After a while it came out excess juice and it became impregnated then horses. Thanks to it it became slightly added some salt and dried.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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