Thursday, November 1, 2007

Food Facts: Did You Know?

* Eggplant Caviar is made of baked eggplant, garlic, onions, tomatoes and olive oil.

* It takes 12 minutes to hard boil a large egg

* Vinegar helps the egg white from spreading, when preparing poached eggs

* Margarine was first produced in France in the late 19th century

* You can quickly peel off the skin of beets, when they are cooked. You can do this by rubbing the beet skins under cold running water.

* Plastic food packaging is a potent health hazard

* Onion is named after a Latin word meaning large pearl!

* Rice is the staple diet of half of the world's population

* Ice cream is actually a Chinese food and has its origin in ancient China

* In France, people eat approximately 500,000,000 snails per year!

* Carrots can actually help you see in the dark!

* There are about 100,000 bacteria in one litre of drinking water!

* Cream is lighter than milk

* Temperature can affect your appetite

* Chopsuey was created by Chinese immigrants in California

8 comments:

Swati said...

Very nice n interesting facts you brought before us..

Swati

Swati said...

BTW where in Cal are u...got a long association with Cal...

Swati

Flowergirl said...

Hi spicegirl, Thank you for stopping by my blog. You have really a nice blog. I have put up a link for your blog in my blog ..

Cheers!

Happy Diwali

Srivalli said...

Hi...was searching for your email id...can't find one!..

Swati said...

Hi Spice girl...
I was in South cal...did my BCom from south city there...lived in WB years together!!
Will sure do the exchange of links!!
Need ur email-id.

Manali said...
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Blogger said...

Very well....I read the interesting fact.

Anamika:The Sugarcrafter said...

Hi
Quite informative and good to know..
Cheers from Botswana