Food Facts for Kids

Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than to plants.

White chocolate isn't technically chocolate because it contains no cocoa solids — only cocoa butter.

Eating too many carrots can temporarily turn your skin orange — it's called carotenemia and it's harmless.

The sandwich was named after the Earl of Sandwich, who asked for meat between two slices of bread so he could eat while playing cards.

Saffron is the world's most expensive spice — it takes about 75,000 flowers to produce one pound.

Popcorn kernels can pop up to 3 feet in the air.

Rhubarb can grow so fast in the right conditions that you can actually hear it popping and creaking.

Cheese is the most stolen food in the world — about 4% of all cheese produced is stolen.

Coconut water was used as IV fluid in emergencies during World War II because it's sterile and similar to blood plasma.

A fig is actually an inverted flower — the flower blooms inside the fruit.