{"id":82042,"date":"2018-12-26T18:13:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=82042"},"modified":"2018-12-26T18:13:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T12:43:26","slug":"surprising-food-facts-that-will-leave-you-open-mouthed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/surprising-food-facts-that-will-leave-you-open-mouthed","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Food Facts that Will Leave You Open-Mouthed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There’s more to your food than you know. For one, do you know you can have a contained fireball show in the microwave if you put grapes inside it? Or, that the common potatoes you see everywhere can absorb and reflect Wi-fi signals? The ordinary food you see around is not so ordinary after all. Keep sliding to know it all and make an impression in your circle with these cool deets.<\/p>\n


\n1. Raw Oyster<\/strong><\/p>\n

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You know while you’re having oyster at your favourite seafood restaurant, you might be eating straight a real alive organism. Some shellfish varieties can survive for about two weeks out of the water. And, oysters’ are no exception. Their quality falls down quickly once they die. That’s why chefs make it a point to serve them as early as possible. And, don’t worry about the oysters. They have no central nervous systems, so they don’t feel any pain while you’re tearing them apart during a bite.<\/p>\n


\n2. Apples<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Have you ever tried soaking apples in a bowl of water? If yes, then you must’ve noticed that instead of sinking – something we expect from a fruit rather heavy for its size – they float. It is mainly due to their constituents’ percentage. The apple you eat is plain one-fourth air. So, when you buy apples, 25% of your money is spent paying for air!<\/p>\n


\n3. Honey<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Honey is one eternal food that just won’t go bad. It is mainly because it is highly acidic and has very low moisture \u2013 the two big major defences against spoilage of food. There is a reason archaeologists have discovered honeypots dating back to thousands of years. Just keep it in low moisture conditions and sealed in a tight jar, and you’ll have the sweet sticky fluid for life and future generations.<\/p>\n

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\n4. Ripe cranberries<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Your dog chewed on your favourite ball? Worry not because until you buy a new one, you can meanwhile play with the ripe cranberries. These little red balls are highly bouncy and you can create a good show out of it if you throw them around to the ground in a multitude. Just beware of your mom!<\/p>\n


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\n5. Carrots<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The reddish-orange colour of the carrots we see today was not so in the beginning. These vegetables were originally white and purple. They also have thin roots towards the narrow end. The natural genetic mutation to the now-common colour took place around the late of 16th century, as scientists believe. Orange is the new black, indeed.<\/p>\n


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\n6. Tomatoes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The rich red tomatoes, which are staples of every kitchen today, were once considered poisonous. In the Europe of the 18th century, it was almost taken as a fact that people die after eating this fruit. It was notoriously given the name of “the poison apple.” However, the bad reputation the fruit earned was not because it had some hazardous chemical makeup at that time or was grown in wrong conditions, it was because of the tableware the aristocrats used then. Tomatoes being highly acidic caused the lead in the pewter plates to leach and ultimately effected the lead poisoning.<\/p>\n

The tomato continued to live with the bad name until the 19th century when the popularity of pizza grew. People, then, slowly started to shed their misconceptions about the red fruit. Now, you have one more reason to celebrate the invention of pizza, don’t you?<\/p>\n


\n7. Peanut Butter<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Do you have a jar of peanut butter in your kitchen? Then know that you have nothing less than a jar of diamonds in your home. Scientists in Germany claim that the creamy food paste contains such a large amount of carbon, that it is possible to convert them into the expensive glitters. Apparently, there’s a straightforward theoretical principle which states that to turn the peanut butter into diamond, all that is to be done is to remove the oxygen present in the carbon dioxide. And, then apply large pressure on the remaining of the carbon. Quite a way to have diamonds! So, what do we have now? Peanut butter is a girl’s best friend? Peanut butter is forever? What’s more?<\/p>\n

So, which fact surprised you the most? Do tell us in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s more to your food than you know. For one, do you know you can have a contained fireball show in the microwave if you put grapes inside it? Or, that the common potatoes you see everywhere can absorb and reflect Wi-fi signals? The ordinary food you see around is not so ordinary after all. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14806,"featured_media":82060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[9741,10540,10537,10535,62,10543,10539,10332,10541,10536,10544,10542,10538],"class_list":{"0":"post-82042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-apples","10":"tag-carrots","11":"tag-cranberries","12":"tag-food","13":"tag-food-facts","14":"tag-honey","15":"tag-peanut-butter","16":"tag-raw-oyster","17":"tag-ripe-cranberries","18":"tag-sea-food","19":"tag-surprising-food-facts","20":"tag-tomatoes"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82062,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82042\/revisions\/82062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}