100 Ways to Cook an Egg
& More Fun Food Facts
Food is such an important component of our everyday lives.
Yet, you’ll be surprised at how little you actually know about
food! We’ve whipped up some interesting facts about our
Asian grub, with some help from YES Supermarket, which
you can use to impress the family at the dinner table.
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Did you know that, at one time in
history, a chef’s hat was pleated
100 times to signify the 100 ways he
knew how to prepare eggs? We kid
you not; there really are more than
100 ways to prepare an egg although
a lot of it involves combining with
other ingredients to make custards,
soufflé, etc. This is on top of the usual
scrambled and over-easy variety!
#2 Bananas are
a man-made
invention!
The banana fruit is actually a manmade creation to replace another type
of banana that went extinct due to
disease! The typical yellow bananas
you see hanging inside supermarkets is
called the Cavendish banana from the
Cavendish tree. The Cavendish trees
are not allowed to reproduce normally
and are instead, in a way, cloned in
farms and laboratories.
#3Strawberries,
raspberries and
blackberries are
not berries!
On the topic of bananas, our yellow
fruity brethren, tomatoes, pumpkins,
watermelons and avocados are
considered berries! On the flipside,
strawberries, raspberries and
blackberries are not considered
berries. The botanical definition of a
berry is a fleshy fruit that is produced
from a single ovary.
#4Honey is made from
bee vomit!
Technically speaking, honey is made
from two ingredients – nectar and bee
vomit! The industrious bees head out
of their hives to extract the nectar from
flowering plants before storing it in
their stomach. Back at the hive, they
regurgitate the nectar into another
bee’s mouth and this goes back and
forth until the partially digested
nectar is deposited into a honeycomb.
Finally, after the water from the
nectar has evaporated, the bee seals
the comb with a secretion of liquid
from its abdomen.
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#5Tomato be medicine!
used to
The tomato ketchup sauce used to
be marketed as patent medicine
for diarrhoea and indigestion back
in the 1800s! A physician named Dr
John Cook Bennett declared that
tomatoes were great for treating
the aforementioned diseases and
began publishing recipes on tomato
ketchup. In fact, tomato ketchup
originated from China and never had
tomatoes in them until the 17th or
18th century, when it was introduced
into the recipe by the English.
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#6Chocolateform once
used as a
of
money!
Chocolate, or at least the cacao
seeds used to make chocolate,
were once used as currency by
the Aztecs between the 1300s and
1500s! Interestingly, the cacao
tree could not be grown in the dry
highlands where the Aztecs lived,
so they would trade with the Maya
and other tribes so that they could
receive a steady supply. The Aztecs
even paid their taxes and tributes
with cacao seeds!
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#7The kiwifruit isn’t
from New Zealand!
The kiwifruit, or Chinese gooseberry,
is actually native to China and is so
important to the Chinese that it is
the country’s national frui HH