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Facts About Eggs

January 20, 2011

Wise Bread has a great post containing 10 facts about eggs.  Did you know that there are more egg colors than just brown and white?

Different breeds of chickens produce different colors of eggs. In addition to the typical white and brown, some chickens produce blue, blue-green, reddish-brown, or even speckled eggs. A great place to look for atypical egg colors is at your local farmers market; one vendor at my market sells a dozen eggs in a mix of blue, white, cream, and brown.

via 10 Fantastic Facts About Eggs | Wise Bread.

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Why Does Airline Food Taste so Bland?

November 10, 2010

New research on the affects of background noise and how we perceive taste.

While louder noise reduced the reported sweetness or saltiness, it increased the measure of crunch.
The research is reported in the journal Food Quality and Preference.
It may go some way to explaining why airline food is notoriously bland – a phenomenon that drives airline catering companies to heavily season their foods.
“Theres a general opinion that aeroplane foods arent fantastic,” said Andy Woods, a researcher from Unilevers laboratories and the University of Manchester.

via BBC News – Background noise affects taste of foods, research shows.

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Pet Food Sucking Up U.S. Water

From National Geographic Researchers investigated the hidden costs of water use by estimating the amount of H20 consumed per U.S. dollar of end product by different industrial sectors, including agriculture.For instance, it takes about 270 gallons 1,022 liters of water to produce a dollar’s worth of sugar, about 200 gallons 757 liters to make a [...]

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What’s the Biggest Source of Food Poisoning?

A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified chicken as the biggest source of food poisoning in the United States. The second largest cause was identified as vegetables, fruits and nuts. Poultry was the most commonly identified source of food poisoning in the United States in 2006, followed by leafy vegetables [...]

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Origin of the Twinkie

Hostess Twinkies were invented in 1931 by James Dewar, manager of Continental Bakeries’ Chicago factory. He envisioned the product as a way of using the company’s thousands of shortcake pans which were otherwise employed only during the strawberry season. Originally called Little Shortcake Fingers, they were renamed Twinkie Fingers, and finally “Twinkies.” [shelf life of [...]

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How Many Frogs Are Consumed a Year?

New research reveals that humans are estimated to consume over 1 billion frogs every year.  According to the study, the U.S. and France are among the biggest importers of frogs, and Indonesia is reported to export an estimated 5,000 tons of frogs each year. The new research, to be published in a forthcoming edition of [...]

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Coffee and Hallucinations

New research has found that people who drink more than seven cups of coffee a day will be more likely to hallucinate. People who drank more than seven cups of instant coffee a day were three times more likely to hallucinate than those who took just one, a study found. A Durham University team questioned 200 [...]

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Food Color From Crushed Bugs

Did you know that many food today gets its artificial coloring from a dried, crushed up bug?  Food manufactures derive the dye from a beetle known as the Cochineal Bug.  It is often found in foods with red, orange, purple or pink coloring. Center for Science in the Public Interest has spent the last decade attempting to get the ingredient banned, [...]

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