The interesting facts about food

Food takes the important place in life of any person and an animal. Without food it is impossible to exist. We suggest you to learn the interesting facts about food and drinks.

The facts about food

Let's begin, perhaps, with historical aspects. Food was always of interest at all generations.

1. Many ancient cultures considered that the cut apple in vertical position has similarity to female genitals.
2. Some scientists consider that kisses arose owing to transfer by mothers of the chewed food to babies from a mouth in a mouth.
3. Seafood, for example, of an oyster, is considered as aphrodisiacs. Casanova treated the future partners with seafood.
4. In the ancient time fresh milk was considered as goods of luxury and abundance because of complexity of its preservation.
5. The first soup appeared more than five thousand years ago. It was made from hippopotamus meat.
6. Began to decorate food with greens in Ancient Rome. It was considered as a charm from intrigues of a devil.
7. Was considered that lemon juice can dissolve the swallowed fish stones. For this reason to the Middle Ages the fish was served surely with a lemon.
8. The unusual fact about food is that Hippocrates considered a good and useful dish for patients a young dog broth.
9. Astronauts consider that the most tasty sublimated product – cottage cheese with nuts and a cranberry.
10. Surprisingly, but banana is not fruit, but berry.
11. Neil Armstrong for the first time on the Moon has dinner a turkey from a bag.
12. Avocados should not ripen on a tree. To be edible, they need to lie down and ripen. At the same time, the tree is used as a warehouse – avocados store after maturing several months.

The interesting facts about food in the different countries

1. If often to eat rolls with poppy, then it can show positive test result on drugs.
2. In the Scandinavian countries, dishes of their gone-out fish are considered as a delicacy.
3. Earlier sugar was luxury in Europe. Then rich men had a strange fashion to show the situation, they made up teeth in black color.
4. In Japanese cuisine there is a delicacy fish the fugue. This fish is poisonous, and her wrong preparation can become a cause of death.
5. The cranberry in translation from English means "crane berry".
6. In the 16th century in France the peas appeared. It was brought from Italy by Ekaterina Medici after the wedding with Heinrich the Second. Exactly thanks to it, peas became a delicacy.

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