Food Facts

As some of you know, I enjoy cooking.. Here are some interesting food facts;

1- To Stop a bag of potatoes from budding, please an apple in the bag.

2- Wrapping celery in aluminum foil before you refrigerate will keep it fresh for weeks

3- Did you make the soup too salty? Cut a potato and put it in - it will soak up the salt

4- A red pepper has 4 times as much Vit.C compared to an orange.

5- Green Bananas? Place in a paper bag with an apple.. They will be ripe in a day or 2.

6- To check the freshness of an egg, put in a pan of cool salted water. If it sinks its good, if it comes to the surface - it's no good.

7- Bananas don't grow on tree's. Their actually giant herbs!

8- Ketchup was originally used as a fish sauce.

9- Vanilla a drug? Apparently vanilla causes the body to release catecholamines (including adrenalin) - for this reason it is considered to be mildly addictive. Also vanilla has been known to fight bacteria.

10 - Its takes 9 months for a pineapple to ripen.