15 Interesting Food Facts

1. A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
2. Americans eat 20.7 pounds of candy per person annually. The Dutch eat three times as much. 
3. Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer. 
4. Americans spent an estimated $267 billion dining out in 1993.
5. An etiquette writer of the 1840's advised, "Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it."
6. Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.
7. Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.
8. California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old. 
9. Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers "hot" to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk. 
10. Cast iron skillets used to be the leading source of iron in the American diet!
11. China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time.
12. Chocolate contains phenyl ethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love.
13. World wide, consumers spend more than $7 billion a year on chocolate. Annual per capita consumption of chocolate is 12 pounds per person. 
14. Each American eats an average of 51 pounds of chocolate per year. 
15. Fortune cookies were invented in 1916 by George Jung, a Los Angeles noodle maker.
    

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