The avocado is also called an Alligator Pear because of its pear-like shape and green skin. There are about 7,000 avocado groves in California; the average size is around 10 acres. The Aztec word for avocado was ahuacatl, which means "testicle...

Salt is vital to prevent excess saliva production to the point that it flows out of the mouth during sleep. Needing to constantly mop up excess saliva indicates salt shortage. Salt is a vital substance for the survival of all living creatures,...

More than 90 percent of the world's rice is grown and consumed in Asia, where people typically eat rice two or three times a daily. More than 40000 varieties of cultivated rice (the grass family Oryza sativa) are thought to exist but the exact...

Honey dates back for 150 million years.A cave painting depicting an androgynous figure robbing honey out of the hive was found in the Cave of the Spider in Valencia, Spain. Greeks and Roman referred to honey as a food fit for the gods. On average...

Throughout the ages, garlic has been advocated for a variety of ills. More recently, studies using garlic in its natural form (or in its various supplemental varieties) indicate that garlic may lower high cholesterol levels (hyperlipidemia) and have...

Dom Perignon a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Hautvillers invented champagne. Champagne is type of sparkling white wine that comes from the northern region of France called Champagne. Marilyn Monroe once took a bath in 130 bottles of...

Fast food shops have been found in ancient ruins. It appears that the Greeks also enjoyed the convenience of fast food. Every month, more than 90 per cent of the children in the United States eat at McDonald's. Most nutritionists recommend not...

The oldest known sample of chewing gum is a piece of birch bark tar estimated to be 6,500 years old. It seems to have been chewed by a person 30-40 years old with a cavity in one tooth. One puzzling aspect of the find is that no one knows how the tar...

Historians state that potatoes were being fried by at least 1680 in the Meuse Valley of Belgium. Locals would eat small fried fish with their meals, but when the river was frozen over, they cut potatoes lengthwise and fried them in oil to use as a...

True caviar comes from the icy waters of the Caspian Sea where the environment is most conducive to producing the finest sturgeon. The United States imports approximately sixty percent of the total world caviar supply. Today with sturgeon facing...

There are more than 500 varieties of banana in the world. The word 'banan' is Arabic for finger. Eating a banana can cheer you up. Bananas are the only fruit to contain the amino acid, tryptophan plus Vitamin B6 which together help the body...

While oysters have separate sexes, they may change sex one or more times during their life span. Oysters have a three chambered heart, colourless blood and a pair of kidneys. The female oyster can release well in excess of 1 million eggs over the...