Fun Facts: Food & Drinks Part 7

There are pink bananas that exist called Musa velutina, and they peel themselves when ripe. They’re often grown as ornamental, but have soft, sweet flesh and can be eaten. The seeds however are quite hard and can chip a tooth.

There are 3D printers that can print your dinner. The Foodini Food Printer makes everything from pizza to burgers to chocolate using fresh ingredients.

A free kitchen, operated by volunteers in India at the Golden Temple in the Indian city of Amritsar, serves 100,000 hot meals a day and has been doing so for over three hundred years.

We have the ability to eat an entire bag of chips without really noticing, because the chips have a vanishing caloric density. What that means is that it tricks our tongue and brain into thinking that we haven’t actually eaten anything.

Marigolds and other plants that contain the pigment Xanthophyll are added to chicken feed to make their egg yolks appear more orange. 

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