Crazy food facts

Although white wine can be produced from both red and white grapes, red wine can only be made from red grapes.
If you plug your nose apples, potatoes, and onions all taste the same.
If you drop a raisin in a glass of real champagne it will bounce up and down in the glass.
Macadamia nuts are not sold in their shells because it takes 300 pounds per square inch of pressure to break the shell.
Supposedly, beetles tastes like apples.
Traditionally rice is thrown at a bride and groom as a symbol of fertility.
There is cyanide in apple pips, but don’t worry if you swallow a few it’s only found in very minuscule amounts.
Peanut oil can be processed to produce glycerol, which can be used to make nitroglycerin, one of the constituents of dynamite. However, there are other processes that can be used to make dynamite without using peanuts.
Lettuce is the only vegetable that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, or cooked.
Ice-pops were invented by 11 year old, Frank Epperson. Story has it that, he left his fizzy drink with a stirring stick outside overnight, and the rest is history.
Wrigley’s gum was the first product to have a bar code on its packaging.
Mexican jumping beans jump because the larvae of a small moth that lives inside the shell spams when heated causing the bean to jump. It’s slightly stomach turning but true

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