Fruit-flavored snacks are made with the same wax used on cars, and the gelatin in fruit snacks is mostly made from pork skins, pork and cattle bones or split cattle hides.
Chocolate was used as currency for the Aztecs because they couldn't grow cacao in the dry highlands of Central Mexico.
Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.
Due to peanut butter's high carbon content, researchers have been able to convert peanut butter into a diamond by bonding it with a carbon. However, the transformation is quite slow.
The red food-coloring carmine — used in Skittles and other candies — is made from boiled cochineal bugs, a type of beetle.
Potatoes can absorb and reflect Wi-Fi signals.
Because of potatoes' water content and chemistry, they're able to absorb and reflect radio wave signals the same way humans do. So, Boeing Co. used potatoes to test their in-flight Wi-Fi signal by putting sacks of potatoes on a seat for days at a time in order to conduct their experiment.
Pound cake got its name from its original recipe, which called for a pound each of butter, eggs, sugar, and flour.
Most wasabi consumed is not real wasabi, but colored horseradish.
Even in Japan, the demand for wasabi is so high that you'll often find a horseradish mixture instead. In the United States, most wasabi is really just horseradish.
Real wasabi is supposed to be smoother tasting, without a burning aftertaste.
Farm-raised salmon has to be dyed pink, otherwise it would be white.
Wild salmon is pink due to their consumption of crustaceans, such as shrimp. Farmed salmon, however, eat pellets, resulting in a grayish white color. They are then dyed pink in order to appeal to consumers more.