10 Unusual Food Facts.

Food is an integral part of our life, but, oddly enough, it hides secrets that we do not even know about. The facts about food listed in this article are so incredible that they may seem absurd and not believable. Here are the unusual food facts that we present to you today:

1. Food fact # 1: Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds because of its high carbon content. According to scientists, it takes several weeks to produce a diamond measuring 2-3 millimeters in size.
2. Food fact # 2: Food on an airplane is not particularly tasty because our sense of taste and smell is dulled during the flight. At an altitude of 10,000 meters, due to low atmospheric pressure and low air humidity, our taste buds fail. According to the observations of people who often fly in airplanes, the only exceptions can be tomato juice and some wines.
3. Food fact # 3: There are so many varieties of apples that if you want to taste all of them, it will take you over 25 years to eat one apple a day. According to the latest data, there are about 10 thousand varieties of apples in the world.
4. Food fact # 4: Cheese is the most stolen food in the world. Every year, more than 3% of the cheese on display disappears mysteriously. Experts attribute this trend to stable rise in cheese prices and its high popularity
5. Food fact # 5: To make 100 g of chocolate, you need about 1700 liters of water. Water is used at various stages of production, for example, directly in production, as well as in related processes, for example, when cleaning industrial, warehouse and other premises. Thus, 1 kilogram of chocolate consumes an amount of water equivalent in volume to a small pool in a private house (17,000 liters).
6. Food fact #6: Potato can absorb and provide WiFi signals. The matter is that this root vegetable absorbs and reflects radio waves almost the same way as the human body. As they mention on scientificrussia.ru website, “Boeing” company managed to improve WiFi signals on the planes with the help of sacks of potatoes.
7. Food fact # 7: Orange juice is flavored in stores. Although it contains oranges, it is not actually juice. The juice is stored in huge containers and all the oxygen is extracted from it. Why? Because the removal of oxygen will allow the juice to remain usable throughout the year. But when the oxygen is removed, all natural flavors disappear. And who wants to drink orange juice without the taste and smell of oranges? This is why juice manufacturers add special flavors and aromas.
8. Food fact # 8: Tea bags appeared by accident. In 1908, American Thomas Sullivan sent small samples of tea in bags to his clients. But some clients, not knowing how to make tea, simply put the bag in boiling water. This is how the mass production of tea bags was born.
9. Food fact # 9: People are genetically predisposed to love and thirst for sugary foods, because glucose loads our brain with energy, moreover, sugary foods contain more calories and thus give a better chance of survival, which was extremely important for our ancestors as in antiquity and in the relatively recent past.
10. Food fact # 10: On August 10, 2015, the ISS astronauts tasted salad grown in space for the first time.