Fun Food Facts

Here are a few fun facts about food that I learned recently:

About Milk

• A glass of milk is one of the best after-exercise meals.
• It provides both slow and fast digesting protein which helps with lean muscle gain.
• The fat in milk keeps you fuller longer, which decreases hunger and in turn helps you to lose weight

About Vegetable Oil

• A little bit of vegetable oil combed thru the hair can detangle it.
• If you have gum stuck to leather, just rub a little vegetable oil on it and it'll come right off.
• It can help to remove paint from skin... cool!

Random food facts:

• Honey is the only food that cannot spoil, even if it starts to crystalize or become cloudy - all you have to do is microwave it for a few seconds at a time, mix and it'll be right as rain!
• Strawberries are the only fruit that have their seeds on the outside.
• Iceberg Lettuce is 90% water... which if fed to a rabbit, would make it nutritionally deficient.
• Apples are more efficient at waking you up in the morning than coffee.
• The same chemicals that give tart cherries their color may relieve pain better than aspirin and ibuprofen in humans.
• Bananas are about 99.5% fat free
• There are 500 types of bananas, 1500 types of watermelon, 7,500 types of apples and more than 600 types of oranges in the world.