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- 27% of food produced in the US is...
- Oat groats are better known as...
- The earliest use of the oven for large scale bread baking was in...
- Milk loses more than half its A, C and B vitamins when exposed to two hours of fluorescent light or...
- The world's fourth-largest food crop. Thousands of varieties still grow wild in the Andes. Not introduced to Europe until the 1500s.
- The average person in the U.S. eats 4.7 lbs. of food per day. 1.6 lbs of dairy products, 12.8 ounces of fruits, 11 ounces of vegetables, 8 ounces of meat, 8 ounces of grains, 3.2 ounces of fats and oils and 6.4 ounces of...
- The tradition of carving pumpkins at Halloween was started by the...
- They were called banana republics when banana growers controlled who governed a...
- Popcorn has been around for how many thousands of years?
- A very popular fruit indigenous to Central Asia which did not come to the U.S. until the 17th century.
- Recent evidence shows domestication of wheat occurred in this country...
- Ice cream must weigh 4.5 pounds per gallon, have not more than 50% air and at least 10% milk fat. This product has a milk fat content between one and two percent and a gallon must weigh a minimum of six pounds.
- In many parts of the world the word raisin is reserved for the sun-dried large dark grape, the dried large white grape is referred to as sultana, and the dried small Black Corinth grapes are referred to as...
- Temperature affects appetite. You're more likely to be hungry if you're...
- What "beans' (really a seed) does the Cacao tree give us?
- When milling wheat, the germ becomes exposed to oxygen. Without the germ, flour does not go...
- The average U.S. adult eats 1700 pounds of this per year...
- Before chestnut blight arrived in the U.S., in some places, such as the Appalachian Mountains, one out of every four hardwoods was an American chestnut (it has been estimated that four billion American chestnuts were killed due to the blight). To the native population and to the Colonists chestnuts were a...
- What is boiled down animal bones, hooves, connective tissue, skin, organs and intestines of animals such as domesticated cattle, pigs, and horses -- that is then strained, skimmed of fat and powdered?
- The best selling cookie of the 20th century...
- Okra, Chinese yams and lotus root are good for our digestion because they are mucilaginous or...
- Chocolate and raisins are lethal to...
- The Shakers boiled blueberries in milk and then used it as...
- In the United States, this term means that poultry has been allowed access to the outside. The USDA regulations do not specify the type or size of the outside range, nor the length of time an animal must have access to the outside.
- When a potato is baked vitamins migrate to the...
- These beans were part of the Mediterranean diet in 6000 BC or earlier...
- Green bell peppers are unripe, yellow slightly ripe, orange semi-ripened and juicy. With ripeness comes more nutrition. When fully ripe they are...
- Each year this state harvests between 10 - 12 billion apples.
- A hybrid between a plum and an apricot that resembles the plum more than the apricot...
- Formerly made with a pound of each: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar.
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- The production of one kilogram of beef requires 22 thousand liters of...
- In a hot pepper the highest concentration of capsaicin can be found in the white pith around the seeds. This part of the pepper does not produce any capsaicin...
- Americans eat approximately 67,500,000,000 of these each year...
- A grain that was eaten by the dinosaurs, was more important to the early Chinese than rice, does well in poor conditions, and does not need to be processed after harvesting...
- What nut is in the same family as poison ivy and has a potent resin, that is a skin irritant, around its shell.
- Sprouting grain, that is abruptly toasted or kiln-dried.
- This variety of apple can be cold-stored for 10 months prior to hitting the stores...
- The sweet potato might resemble this ... but they are from very different families. A large specimen can weight over 100 pounds...
- Apple, pear and peach trees are members of this family...
- Known as lady's fingers in much of the world. Known as ngumbo in its native Angola.
- Each year Americans consume 23 ... of ice cream or other commercially produced frozen dairy products.
- Ethylene gas is used to ... fruit.
- A pescetarian is a semi-vegetarian whose diet includes...
- The tomato's scientific name means wolf peach, as it is technically considered a fruit. Which country is it native to?
- This Food Company has owned Lanai Island, the sixth largest Hawaiian island since 1920.
- A sweet member of the morning glory family that is native to the Americas...
- Ancient Asia minor native that grows in poor soil and keeps well, so has been historically important.
- The bran protects the...
- For pickles this term means they are flavored with garlic, not that they have been blessed by a rabbi.
- This reptile has been an easy dinner for humans for tens of thousands of years...
- Very few potato varieties are grown worldwide. But over 100 varieties might be found, in their native country, in a single valley in the...
- Plum pudding has never contained plums, but does contain...
- This fodder crop has a root system that can reach down 50 feet and is therefore very resistent to droughts.
- A popular wedding gift in the 1800s was a glass vase that held this highly esteemed vegetable...
- It takes about 36 apples to create one gallon of apple...
- "Little tongues" in Italian...
- What gives flour its elasticity and also traps the gases created by yeast or leaveners?
- Aged flour is good for...
- In the 1570s the potato was introduced to...
- An apple, an onion and a potato all taste similar if you taste them with this plugged...
- To produce 1 pound of honey, bees must visit over 2 million flowers. A worker bee visits about 50-100 flowers during each trip. A hive of bees travels over 55,000 miles to make one pound of honey. How many pounds of nectar does it take to make one pound of honey?
- The resins from the mastic, spruce and sapodilla tree were once used to make this... which is nowadays most often made with synthetic materials.
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