Food facts and trivia
By ad | April 19, 2006
Food facts and trivia
What is Spam? In 1937, Hormel company discovered the secret of eternal shelf life. The result was Spam ? real meat that lasts forever. Spam is short for ?spiced ham.? Spam is a joke food. The ingredients include: chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added and salt, water, sugar, an sodium nitrate. Sodium nitrate causes cancer. Spam?s fat content is more than 70%. Spam remains ?edible? for nearly one hundred years.
What is Buckwheat? More people probably know who Buckwheat is than know what buckwheat is. Buckwheat is not a kind of wheat but a completely unrelated plant in the genus Fagopyrum. It is a sprawling Siberian herb that serves as a base for many Russian dishes, such as kasha, a pilaflike dish of braised buckwheat kernels.
Have carrots always been orange? No. As a matter of fact, today?s carrot (Daucus carota) has only been orange for about the last two hundred years. The original carrot, which is probably native to Afghanistan, was purple. Through centuries of selective breeding, the color was gradually changed to white, yellow, and finally orange. It wasn?t until they became orange that carrots caught on as a popular food.
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