Totally Random Food Science Facts!
- According to a study by the British Cheese board, regularly eating different types of cheese before bed may affect how we sleep: the study participants who ate Stilton had super weird dreams!
- There are around 2,000 different plant types that humans grow as food.
- Think lemons are sour? Believe it or not, they actually have 30% more sugar than strawberries.
- The sweet potato isn't actually a potato at all. Sweet potatoes are a root, while potatoes are tubers.
- Bananas are radioactive––well, they contain potassium (K), which undergoes radioactive decay. But don't worry, you'd need to eat ten million of them in a single sitting to get sick.
- Cooking is actually a chemical reaction. When heated, proteins unfold and tangle (a process called denaturation) with themselves and other proteins, forming new chemical bonds.
- Onions don't actually make people sad... When cut into, an onion releases a gas called "propanethiol s-oxide" that bugs our eyes.
- Strawberries really aren't berries at all. They're actually a part of the strawberry plant's stem that has thickened, and are technically called receptacles.