21 highly successful people with bizarre eating habits

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The most successful people follow daily rituals that keep them aligned and consistent, and free their minds to think about more important things.

But some of their habits, particularly eating habits, are downright strange.

Actor Nicholas Cage only eats animals that he considers to have "dignified sex." Apple's Steve Jobs ate only carrots for so long that his skin took on a bright orange hue. Business magnate Howard Hughes used spoons with a protective covering that included two layers of tissue paper and cellophane tape.

We pored through years of biographies and interviews, as well as "What the Great Ate" by Matthew Jacob and Mark Jacob, to find out what the super-accomplished subsist on.

Here's a look at the most bizarre eating habits of highly successful people.

This is an update of an article originally written by Vivian Giang.