Food Facts

• To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, traveling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
• Three quarters of fish caught are eaten - the rest is used to make things such as glue, soap, margarine and fertilizer.
• Milk chocolate was invented by Daniel Peter, who sold the concept to his neighbour Henri Nestlé.
• Botanically speaking, the banana is a herb and the tomato is a fruit.
  The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.
  Over the last 40 years food production actually increased faster than population.
• Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.
  Vitamin A is known to prevent "night blindness," and carrots are loaded with Vitamin A. One carrot provides more than 200% of recommended daily intake of Vitamin A.
• Carrots have zero fat content.