10 fun facts about food, which do not even know the cook

• 10 fun facts about food, which do not even know the cook

It would seem - the food and the food that this could be it. Suddenly the news. We were very surprised by this fact. We offer you and wonder.

1. Apple - a relative of the rose. Now you have a legitimate reason to give apples package instead of the traditional bouquet. However, to give pears with apples, almonds, cherries or cherry with the same plum - also appropriate. "Pink" All of this botanical family.

2. Bananas - no fruit. Banana tree - this herb.

3. But coffee - it's berries. More precisely, the fruit seeds of the coffee tree.

4. Almonds - a close relative of the plum and cherry. All of them belong to the subfamily plum. Only in edible almond pit.

5. The most geographically widespread throughout the world milk - goat. Since goats can live and feed there, where no one cow did not wander.

6. Carrots were first grown not for sweet root, and for the fragrant grains and herbs that have been used as a spice and medicine. In Europe, this root vegetable is considered to be vegetables and fruits at the same time. The Portuguese, for example, produce and sell the carrot jam.

7. Homeland ketchup find America, but the food that bore that name, in the XVII century brought from China to England. Then it consisted of anchovies, nuts and mushrooms, and tomatoes was not in sight.

8. Rice feeds half of the world population. In Russia, it is known since the Middle Ages called "Saracen millet", but the mass cultivation of rice began only in the XIX century. But in Islamic countries, there is a measure of weight equal to one grain of rice - aruzza is 0, 0186 g

9. strawberries has more vitamin C than an orange. And in parsley and sweet pepper - even more.

10. Tomatoes have long been considered poisonous. Berries tainted the reputation of this close relative of the Solanaceae family - potatoes. potato berries are poisonous and really like tomatoes, only small.