Interesting facts of foods #3

1. Foods, like ranch dressing or coffee creamer, can contain titanium dioxide, which can also be found in paint, plastic, and sunscreen.

2. Potatoes can absorb and reflect Wi-fi signals.

3. The red food dye used in Skittles is made from boiled beetles.

4. Carrots were originally purple.

5. Crackers will give you cavities faster than candy.

6. Mountain Dew is mainly just orange juice.

7. When you eat figs, technically, you're also eating wasps.

Figs are pollinated by female wasps, who lose their wings in the process of pollination. The wasp has no way to get out of the fig and so they die inside, and then the fig's enzymes breakdown and dissolve the wasp.

8. Altitude can change taste.

9. Store bought 100% "real" orange juice is actually 100% artificially flavoured.

10. Chocolate was once used as currency.

11. Humans are born craving sugar.

12. Eating bananas can help fight depression.

13. No matter what color Fruit Loop you eat, they all taste the same.

14. "SPAM" is short for spiced ham.

15. One of the most hydrating foods to eat is the cucumber, which is 96% water.