Food Facts
The largest chocolate bar ever manufactured was in Italy in 2000 and the bar had a weight of 5000 pounds (or 2268 kilograms).
Competitive eating champion Takeru Kobayashi set a world record by eating 57 pan-seared cow brains (17.7 pounds) in 15 minutes.
The original recipe for Coca-Cola contained a small amount of cocaine (about 22.5 milligrams of cocaine per gallon). Cocaine was removed from Coca-Cola in 1903.
Coffee was first discovered by an Ethiopian goat herder in the 9th century, when he noticed how excited his goats became after eating the beans from a coffee plant.
All the krispy kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the empire state building in only 2 minutes.
Dark chocolate is most popular among men.
More than twice as many women than men eat and crave chocolate.
The word Chocolate comes from the Aztec word xocolatl, meaning, bitter water.
Chocolate makers use 40% of the world's almonds and 20% of the world's peanuts.
The colors yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaurants because those are the colors that stimulate hunger.
The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
People spend more than 7 billion dollars a year on chocolate.
The first chocolate bar was produced by Cadbury in England in 1842.
The pufferfish, eaten as a delicacy in Japan, contains a potent neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin.
Nestle introduced Chocolate Chips in 1939.
Worldwide, 120,000 tons of caffeine are consumed each year.
The aroma of coffee contains over 800 different chemicals, but only 20-30 of them contribute to the characteristic quality.
Americans consume about 45 million pounds of caffeine each year.
The average daily consumption of caffeine among adults is 200 mg/day.
In the United States, the first cookbook was published in 1796 and it contained a recipe for watermelon rind pickles.