Food Facts
Test Your Strange Food Facts
IQ!
By Joe Wilkes
From the Team Beachbody Club - Join Today and Workout to
Win!
 What
vegetable burns more calories than it contains? Celery has
about 6 calories per stalk. But your body burns more calories than that in the
digestion process. It's not actually the chewing and crunching, but the
digestion of the high amount of cellulose in your stomach that burns the
calories.
 What common bagel topping can show up as an
opiate in drug tests? Poppy seeds are related closely
enough to opium poppies that they can show up in a urine test as an opiate like
heroin or morphine. The level is generally considered too low to be considered
a "true positive" and most drug testing companies discount these results.
However, just to be on the safe side, the federal prison system has banned its
inmates from eating poppy seeds. And in case you were wondering, you could
pretty much eat your weight in poppy seeds and not get high.
 Which U.S. state eats more ice cream per capita than
any other? Despite living in one of the coldest states in
the Union, Alaskans eat twice as much ice cream as any other
state.
- What are the food additives
cochineal and carminic acid made from? These scientific
terms found in the ingredient lists of many foods, beverages, and cosmetics are
fancy names for a red food coloring developed by the Aztecs, made of dried
powdered beetles native to Central and South America. While their origins may
be less than appetizing, they are perfectly safe to eat.
 What do
the letters in the canned meat product SPAM stand for? Salted Porky Anonymous Meat? Guess again. Originally it stood
for SPiced hAM, named in a contest, where the
winner was awarded the princely sum of $100. The people at Hormel Foods say
that while it does include ham and spices, it doesn't begin to describe the
product that is SPAM, and now maintain that SPAM stands merely for
SPAM.
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