40 Random Bits of Food Trivia to Swallow Whole Like A Huge Disgusting Pelican

A well-balanced meal — for your brain
40 Random Bits of Food Trivia to Swallow Whole Like A Huge Disgusting Pelican

We’ll only let your brain eat these sweet facts if it’s had its fact veggies. You know, one of our many science- and/or history-based fact lists that’ll help it grow big and strong. 

Sorry to pull the concerned mother card here, but your brain can’t live on these sweet treats alone.

Fruit

Storing your fruit together in the same bowl has a certain aesthetic appeal. However, this is likely causing your fruit to spoil faster. A number of fruits, including apples, bananas, and pears, produce a gas called ethylene as they ripen. Ethylene can contaminate other nearby fruits by causing a breakdown in their chlorophyll. Less chlorophyll leads to premature spoilage. CRACKED.COM

Chicken Skin

MYTH: DIETING? SKIN YOUR CHICKEN BEFORE YOU COOK IT. FACT: IT Doesn'T MATTER WHen YOU Remove THE SKIN. Yes, you can reduce calories in chicken by skipping the skin, but cooking chicken with the skin on doesn't make it less healthy, no matter what cooking method you use. And the skin keeps the chicken from drying out while cooking. CRACKED.COM http://www.rd.com/health/wellness/eat-healthier-food-myths-you-still-think-are-true/

The National Institutes of Health

The NIH has spent $1.55 million on a video game app called Kiddio: Food Fight. In it, you play a mother persuading her kid to taste vegetables. Because harried moms want nothing more than to spend rare moments of leisure playing force the kid to eat veggies on their phones. CRACKED.COM https://salmon house, .gov/media-center/press-releases/ rep-salmon-introduces-final-shrink-our-spending-bill-2015-cuts-funding

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Killer Vitamins

VITAMINS CAN KILL TOO. A health food enthusiast consumed carrot juice and vitamin pills a bit too regularly. The intake of 70 million units of vitamin

Vegetables

Not keen on eating vegetables? Your days are numbered. A study shows that people under the age of 65 that eat only meat, eggs, milk and cheese suffer

Pressure Cooking

Pressure cooking does not destroy vitamins. In fact, out of all major cooking methods, pressure cooking retains vitamins the most. Boiling destroys up

Seasoning Steak

When seasoning steak, you need to add more than what your gut tells you. You are only seasoning the surface of the steak, not the whole steak itself,

Kitchen Terms

CRACKEDCO COM Sandbagging means cooking food before anyone orders it, and serving it later as fresh.

Eggs

How To Tell If Your Eggs Are Still Edible: Put them into a glass of water; if they sink, they're fresh, but if they float, they might not be edible. C

Veggies

Start eating vegetables every day! Research done by scholars at the University of Sydney clearly found that people who eat 3-4 servings of veggies eac

Early Dinners

Americans eat dinner very carlyo Since many middle:-class Americans skip breakfast (or eat 00 the gol, and eat lunch at their desks (if they eat lunch

Pasta

MYTHB A LITTLE OIL in YOUR BOILING WATER WILL KeeP PASTA FRom STICKING. FACT8 IT WON'T. IT WILL Just BLOCK THE SAUCE. When you add oil to pasta water,

Whole Grain

WHOLE GRAIN DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN WHOLLY WHOLE GRAIN. NEITHER DOES WHOLE GRAIN ROTINI MULTIGRAIN OR ENEN MADE WITH 51% WHOLE GRAIN PASTA INGREDI

Fish

Fish is such a healthy food. Unless you're talking about mental health. Eating fish and other seafood has been linked to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and

Salads

Salad carries more health risbs than meat. Because vegetables are grown in the soil, they are exposed to pathogens that can only be billed. by cooking

Grill Marks

CRACKED Many fast food restaurants' hamburgers and chicken strips are imprinted with fake grill marks.

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