19 Shocking Food Facts You Never Knew

19 Shocking Food Facts You Never Knew

1.

Fruity Pebbles are literally just grains of white rice that have been flattened and then puffed back up.

2.

Green gummy bears are actually strawberry flavored.

3.

The milk you see in cereal commercials isn’t actually real. The bowl is normally filled with shortening or Styrofoam, and then white glue is added to make it look like milk.

4.

Bananas and eggplants are actually berries, but strawberries aren’t (despite literally having the word “berry” in their name).

5.

According to the FDA, a typical jar of peanut butter contains 10 or more rodent hairs.

6.

The insides of Kit Kats are…literally just ground-up Kit Kats.

7.

Apple seeds and cherry pits are toxic. They release cyanide when metabolized and can literally kill you if you eat enough of them.

8.

Baby carrots are just regular carrots that have been cut down.

9.

All Froot Loops are the same exact flavor, no matter what color they are.

10.

Beavers have an anal sac that produces castoreum, which is used in popular food and beverages as a substitute for vanilla flavoring.

11.

Most figs actually contain the bodies of dead wasps…sort of.

12.

Before 2012, Pizza Hut was the largest wholesale purchaser of kale in the United States.

13.

For every glass of water you drink, there’s nearly a 100% chance that a portion of it has been peed out by a dinosaur.

14.

Most sugar is actually bleached with bone char from animals, which is what gives it its white color.

15.

All of your favorite candies are red because they’re dyed using crushed-up bugs.

16.

According to the FDA, you can typically find 30 or more fly eggs in every 100 grams (about half a cup) of tomato sauce.

17.

Remember that rumor about how the numbers on toaster dials represent minutes? Yeah, that’s not really true.

18.

Hawaiian pizza wasn’t actually invented in Hawaii. It was invented in Canada.

19.

And finally, according to several cannibals, human meat tastes verrrrry similar to pork.