FUN FOOD FACTS

Here you’ll learn some fun facts about your favorite foods. What’s the most interesting fact you know about what you’re eating?

Green Peppers

GREEN PEPPERS – Fun Food Facts

Green peppers are actually fruits. These peppers are the under ripened fruit of the capsicum annum plant, and when ripe turn red. Green peppers do NOT produce capsaicin {spicy heat} and are nightshades that contain glycoalkaloids – a naturally occurring pesticides…harmful ONLY to bugs, though.(sources : Nutrition Data; Diagnosis Diet)

Strawberries

STRAWBERRIES – Fun Food Facts

As a member of the rose family, these berries are the ONLY fruit that has seeds on the outside to the tune of about 200 seeds per berry. To boot, if all the strawberries grown in Ca. in one year were laid berry to berry, they would wrap around the world 15 times! (source Kenny’s […]