Weird Food Facts That’ll Totally Blow Your Mind

Meal times & meals (like oatmeal for breakfast, sandwich for lunch) are a social construct. There are no rules as to what time or what food you break your fast with.

You aren’t allergic to MSG. That’s all junk science. It is safe to eat in moderation for almost everyone.

Sugar free tic tacs are 95% sugar, but can be labeled sugar free because they have less than 1 gram of sugar per serving.

Restaurants use 100x more butter and sugar then you could ever imagine.

People who say they can make French onion soup in 30 minutes are lying.

Breakfast is not the most important meal of the day. In 1944, General Foods coined the phrase simply to sell more of its Grape Nuts cereal.

The way asparagus grows looks and feels like someone is pranking me about the way asparagus grows.

Vanilla comes from orchids.

Listeria occurs in a higher rate in bagged salad than lunch meat, but people don’t talk about that with pregnant women 🤷🏼‍♀️

Brussel sprouts really were worse when we were younger. They’ve been bred to taste less bitter.
Red delicious apples used to taste delicious but were bred to withstand travel. They are now beautifully red, waxy, and terrible.
Corn looks nothing like its wild ancestor. I have no idea what made us think it would be great to cultivate, but very glad we did.

Organic does NOT mean pesticide free.
It just means that it’s grown without SYNTHETIC pesticides and fertilizers.

You don't have to "wash" chicken
Trust me, your favorite restaurant doesnt.
That med rare steak or prime rib isn't leaking "blood"
Pork is perfectly ok
Boneless wings are nuggets.

If you cook onions with a tiny bit of baking soda, they completely dissolve into the consistency of jelly within minutes and it is BRIGHT yellow. Like chicken-instant-ramen yellow. I love doing this and then making an omelette - it’s so oniony and good.

Add some squares of dark chocolate to your tomato sauce and the flavor hits a completely different level!

Likewise add a tsp of instant coffee to your brownie batter…same thing!

Grenadine is pomegranate juice, not cherry.

Adding a pinch of salt to chocolate milk is a near-illegal level up.

There's this thing called Perpetual Stew where you start a giant pot of stew and keep adding to it as you're serving it so it never runs dry. Apparently, there has been a pot going somewhere in Europe for near 500 years.

Most people that say they dislike rice do not know how to cook it properly.

Just the way brussel sprouts grow.

Jalapeños have more Vitamin C than oranges.

Bay leaves add so much flavor to food
You don’t eat them, but damn do they add flavor.

Devilled eggs, at their simplest, are eggs, mixed with eggs and oil and stuffed in eggs.

Sushi grade fish is not a regulated term and essentially means nothing. It’s just a marketing tactic.

Biscuits and Gravy is just really wet flour served on really dry flour.

Raw cookie dough is dangerous because of the raw flour, not the raw egg

Adding baking soda to your coffee either to the grounds or into your cup helps neutralize the acid and tones the bitterness down so you need less cream and sugar. The big help though is that will cause less GERD

Rice is no longer good and should be tossed after 2 hours due to the bacteria that cannot be destroyed with reheating. Of course you can refrigerate within 2 hours and then it will be good for a few days.

Potatoes are tomato plants that crosbred with another plant, causing it to focus on tubers instead of fruits. Also you can graft tomato stems onto potato root stock and get a plant that will produce hoth tubers and fruits, but both will be terrible from the split nutrients.

Also carrots do not seed until their second year.

Adding a dash of powdered mustard to any creamy cheesy sauce will make the sauce taste cheesier, while a dash of nutmeg will make the sauce creamier.

Bananas are berries.

All sushi served in the US is frozen and thawed. It’s a regulation to reduce parasites. This might not apply to gas station sushi

If you have a severe cockroach allergy you cannot drink pre ground coffee.

All potatoes were once purple.

Walnuts have way more of those omega-3s than salmon.

Well apparently the red liquid seeping from seemingly undercooked flesh ISN’T blood.

Milk does not do a body good. It was a marketing tactic because milk sales plummeted.

Broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and kale are all the same plant, just bred to emphasize different parts of it.

Letting a steak sit for a few minutes after cooking makes it juicier.

In the US you can label something as organic and it only needs to be 95% organic.

If you put lemon juice into a pan before the garlic has a chance to cook down, it might turn blue.

One that no one ever believes when I tell them - if you eat a few Skittles and a few m&ms together, it tastes just like a Tootsie Roll.

The harder a cheese is, the more readily it will emulsify into a sauce. That's why you need a roux to make cheddar cheese dip but alfredo sauce only requires parmigiano cheese, butter, and a little pasta water.

Potato salad at a picnic that makes people sick isn't the fault of the mayonnaise. The potatoes weren't cooled enough before being mixed, per science.

Emulsifing a vinegar and an oil together does in fact make them one lmao

Cheese that i used to make as a kid on a plate in the microwave hit way harder than majority of 5 star restaurant food.