{"id":6429,"date":"2011-09-28T23:05:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T06:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=6429"},"modified":"2013-06-07T14:04:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T21:04:47","slug":"10-more-fascinating-food-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/10-more-fascinating-food-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"10 More Fascinating Food Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Food-Facts-3-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6430\" title=\"Food Facts 3 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Food-Facts-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"4914\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Food-Facts-3-copy.jpg 615w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Food-Facts-3-copy-340x2717.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Embed This Infographic<\/strong><br \/>\n<textarea width=\"550px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/10-more-fascinating-food-facts\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"10 More Fascinating Food Facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Food-Facts-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"10 More Fascinating Food Facts Infographic\" border=\"0\" class=\"nopin\" \/><\/a><br \/>Source: <a href='http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com' title='Interesting Facts'>Today I found out<\/a><\/textarea><\/p>\n<p>1) <strong>Pre-Sliced Bread was Once Banned in the United States<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1943, Claude R. Wickard, the head of the War Foods Administration as well as the Secretary of Agriculture, got the bright idea to ban pre-sliced bread in America, which he did on January 18, 1943.\u00a0 The specific reasons behind this aren\u2019t entirely clear, though it was about conservation of resources.\u00a0 One known\u00a0 reason for the banning was to conserve wax paper.\u00a0 There have also been many who have suggested there were secondary goals of conserving wheat and steel. As you might imagine, banning pre-sliced bread didn\u2019t go over very well with the masses. Thus, within about three months of the ban being introduced, it was rescinded on March 8th, 1943.<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>Coffee Bean is Not Actually a Bean<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coffee bean is not actually a bean, rather it is a seed.\u00a0 Now I know you are saying to yourself right now, \u201cAren\u2019t beans seeds and seeds beans?\u201d\u00a0 Surprisingly, that is not the case.\u00a0 (who knew?)\u00a0 In fact, though beans are always seeds, seeds are not always beans.\u00a0 A bean is just one kind of a seed. Specifically, it is a name for seeds of the family Fabaceae (also known as Leguminosae) of which the coffee plant is not a member; thus, coffee \u201cbeans\u201d are not actually beans.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>Bananas are Naturally Radioactive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bananas are naturally radioactive.\u00a0 This comes from the fact that they contain relatively high amounts of potassium.\u00a0 Specifically, they contain Potassium-40, which is a radioactive isotope of potassium. The fact that bananas are radioactive has actually given rise to the radiation unit: \u201cbanana equivalent dose\u201d (BED); this is the average amount of radiation you are exposed to by eating one banana.\u00a0 The banana equivalent dose is occasionally used to help conceptualize the relative danger of various radiation sources and amounts; for instance, living within 10 miles of a typical nuclear power plant will expose you on a daily basis to just a bit more radiation than you\u2019d get from eating one banana a day. Now before you start boycotting bananas because of the above association with nuclear reactor radiation leakage, consider that, to cause illness in a person, it takes about 100 rems (Roentgen Equivalent Man).\u00a0 Eating one banana a day for a year only exposes you to 3.6 millirems. You\u2019d need to eat about 10,000,000 bananas in order to reach that amount [100 rems *(1000 millirems \/ rem) * (365 bananas \/ 3.6 millirems)].<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4) <strong>The Red Juice in Raw Red Meat is Not Blood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The red juice in raw red meat is not blood. Nearly all blood is removed from meat during slaughter, which is also why you don\u2019t see blood in raw \u201cwhite meat\u201d; only an extremely small amount of blood remains within the muscle tissue when you get it from the store. So what is that red liquid you are seeing in red meat?\u00a0 Red meats, such as beef, are composed of quite a bit of water.\u00a0 This water, mixed with a protein called myoglobin, ends up comprising most of that red liquid. Myoglobin is a protein that stores oxygen in muscle cells, very similar to its cousin, hemoglobin, that stores oxygen in red blood cells.\u00a0 This is necessary for muscles which need immediate oxygen for energy during frequent, continual\u00a0 usage. Myoglobin is highly pigmented, specifically\u00a0 red; so the more myoglobin, the redder the meat will look and the darker it will get when you cook it.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>5) <strong>One Calorie is equivalent to one gram of TNT in terms of energy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(It is important to note the capital \u201cC\u201d in calorie which signifies a kilo-calorie, also known as a \u201cfood calorie\u201d because the value listed on food labels are typically in kilo-calories.) A Calorie is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. One Calorie is also approximately 4.184 kilojoules or about 1.16 watt\/hours. TNT is yet another method for quantifying energy released, but this time the energy released during an explosion. The explosive yield of TNT is considered the standard measure for strength of bombs and other explosives with 1 ton of TNT equaling 4.184 gigajoules. So 1 kg of TNT then equals 4.6 megajoules, thus a single gram of TNT is equivalent in energy to one Calorie.<\/p>\n<p>6) <strong>Chef Boyardee was a Real Person<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ettore Boiardi was an Italian-American immigrant born in 1897.\u00a0 He worked as a cook at his first restaurant at the tender age of 10 years old in Italy.\u00a0 He later immigrating to America at the age of 16 and took the name \u201cHector Boiardi\u201d as he passed through Ellis Island. From there, he worked at a variety of high end restaurants in New York as a cook, eventually working his way up to Chef.\u00a0 At the age of 24, he moved to Cleveland and opened a restaurant with his wife.\u00a0 The restaurant was called \u201cIl Giardino d\u2019Italia\u201d, which means \u201cThe Garden of Italy\u201d. As he developed a strong customer base, he found himself in the enviable position of having customers clamber after his food so much, they wanted to take it home with them so they could have it any time.\u00a0 He thus began bottling up his sauces in old milk bottles and packaging his special blends of cheeses and spices with dried pasta and selling these meal kits to customers.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t long before the sale totals of these products surpassed his restaurant earnings, despite the restaurant itself doing booming business.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward around 4 years and the volume of his carry out meals being sold per day required a factory to produce.\u00a0 Another 6 years later and he came up with the now famous brand name \u201cChef Boyardee\u201d, changing the spelling of his name to be phonetically correct, as he was tired of explaining to people how to pronounce his name and thought if he was going to be selling nationally, he should make it easy for Americans to\u00a0 pronounce.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7) <strong>The Mathematical Volume of a Pizza is Pizza<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How does that work you say?\u00a0 Well if z = radius of the pizza and a = the height then Pi * radius2 * height = Pi * z * z * a = Pizza.\u00a0 Mind officially blown.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8) <strong>Peanuts are Not Nuts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peanuts are a food with an identity crisis. While most people think of peanuts as nuts, they are actually legumes. What is a legume? It is a type of plant with seeds that grow inside pods such as peas or beans. Unlike nuts, which are grown on trees, peanuts grow underground. Peanut seeds flower above ground and then migrate underground to reach maturity. They are removed from the ground during harvesting. Peanuts are also called goobers, goober peas, groundnuts, earthnuts, monkey nuts, and grass nuts.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9) <strong>What the 8 Juices in V8 Juice Are<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The included juices in the original V8 100% vegetable juice come from tomatoes, carrots, celery, beets, parsley, lettuce, watercress, and spinach.\u00a0 The dominate juice in this mixture is tomato juice comprising nearly 87% of the total juice. The V8 vegetable juice blend was created by W.G. Peacock in 1933 in Evanston, IL.\u00a0 Peacock was the founder of the New England Products Company, which made a variety of vegetable juices and marketed them under the brand name \u201cVegemin\u201d.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, vegetable juice wasn\u2019t a big seller at first given that the original juices were sold as pure juice from specific vegetables. In order to try to boost sales, Peacock began experimenting with mixing the juices from different vegetables to improve on the overall flavor.\u00a0 Eventually, he came up with the recipe for \u201cVege-min 8\u201d, which was later shortened to \u201cV8\u201d at the suggestion of a local grocery store in Evanston, Illinois that was carrying the product.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10) <strong>Almonds are Not Nuts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almonds are not nuts. In fact, an almond is the seed of the fruit of the almond tree.\u00a0 This tree bears fruits with a \u201cstone-like\u201d seed within. Fruits with these characteristics are called \u201cdrupes\u201d.\u00a0 Specifically, a drupe is a fruit that has an outer fleshy part surrounding a shell that contains a seed.\u00a0 Other drupes include fruits from walnut trees and coconut trees. The seed inside the almond fruit is what is commonly referred to as an almond \u201cnut\u201d, even though it\u2019s not a nut.\u00a0 A nut is a hard shelled fruit that has an indehiscent seed; more simply, a hard shelled fruit that doesn\u2019t open to release its seed(s).\u00a0 An example of a true nut would be an acorn or chestnut.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69f1a3a0635bf\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Expand for References and more Information\"    >Expand for References and more Information<\/span><div id=\"target-id69f1a3a0635bf\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/pre-sliced-bread-was-once-banned-in-the-united-states\/\">Pre-Sliced Bread Was Once Banned in the United States<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/a-coffee-bean-is-not-actually-a-bean\/\">A Coffee \u201cBean\u201d is Not Actually a Bean<\/a><br \/>\n3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/bananas-are-naturally-radioactive\/\">Bananas Are Naturally Radioactive<\/a><br \/>\n4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/the-red-juice-in-raw-red-meat-is-not-blood\/\">The Red Juice in Raw Red Meat is Not Blood<\/a><br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/one-calorie-is-equivalent-to-one-gram-of-tnt-in-terms-of-energy\/\">One Calorie is Equivalent to One Gram of TNT in Terms of Energy<\/a><br \/>\n6. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/chef-boyardee-was-a-real-person\/\">Chef Boyardee Was a Real Person<\/a><br \/>\n7. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/the-mathematical-volume-of-a-pizza-is-pizza\/\">The Mathematical Volume of a Pizza is Pizza<\/a><br \/>\n8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misconceptionjunction.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/peanuts-are-not-nuts\/\">Peanuts Are Not Nuts<\/a><br \/>\n9. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/what-the-eight-juices-are-in-v8-vegetable-juice\/\">What the Eight Juices are in V8 Vegetable Juice<\/a><br \/>\n10. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/almonds-are-not-nuts\/\">Almonds Are Not Nuts<\/a><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embed This Infographic Source: <a href='http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com' title='Interesting Facts'>Today I found out<\/a> 1) Pre-Sliced Bread was Once Banned in the United States In 1943, Claude R. 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