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Interesting and Crazy Food Facts!
From centuries human beings are into food – growing and cooking both. We try various types of food and if we like something then, we go out of way to learn more about the food.
Food is one item that binds the hearts! We try with new ingredients to get better taste or new taste. Sometimes we go with ready to eat food too.
In the process we come across many types or food – bakery, mushroom, microwavable foods, fruits, vegetables, drinks etc.
But, do you know that there are several facts which are hidden behind many foods. Next few slides talk about various foods and some facts related to them.
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Huitlacoche, or Ustilago maydis, is a fungus, but not a mushroom. Specifically, it is a pathogenic fungus that grows on corn. For American farmers this is “smut” or “devil’s corn” and they consider it a disease to be eradicated.
In Mexico and American Hopi people consider this fungus as delicacy and use the fungus for cooking.
Huitlacoche is rather easy to cook with, sautés easily, and when it is a little dry, it absorbs liquid well.
It shares the earthy flavor of mushrooms, making it a more exotic mushroom replacement.
The earthy and somewhat smoky fungus is used to flavor quesadillas, tamales, soups and other specialty dishes.
Huitlacoche was used by Aztecs in many staple dishes such as stews and tamales, and today it’s very common in succotashes and quesadillas, or as a filling in any meal that might have mushrooms.
We all know most of the oils are named after their source plants. But did you know that canola oil name has come from a different source? Canola oil is extracted rape seeds.
Here rape refers to Latin word turnip which belongs to brassicaceae (cabbage) family.
Many years ago in 1956 when consumers were convinced that the rapeseed oil is not safe to consume because of high acid toxicity, rapeseed oil was banned and the trademark was eventually abandoned.
Later after many years, Canadian farmers bred a new variety of rapeseed that has lower erucic acid content.
They called it Canola which means “Canadian oil, low in acid”.
Canola became the default term worldwide for low acid content rapeseed oil.
Regulators and health professionals have known of this risk for decades, but always assumed that it would only affect people breathing in especially high concentrations in factory settings.
Then in 2007, a man who regularly ate two bags of microwave popcorn every day was diagnosed with popcorn lung, proving that diacetyl enters the air and lungs when microwave popcorn is cooked.
Anxious to reassure consumers, many microwave popcorn companies replaced diacetyl and sadly the truth is they are using other similar type of chemicals.
After rice and wheat, the most important human carbohydrate source is not what you might guess?
It’s not the starchy potato, or any of the major sweetener-producing crops (sugar cane, sugar beet or corn).
Remember those delicious tapioca chips.. It’s a tropical tuber known by the names cassava, manioc and yuca (in Spanish), and it’s the main ingredient in tapioca pudding. Tapioca predominantly consists of carbohydrates, with each cup containing 23.9 grams for a total of 105 calories.
The plant was carried by Portuguese and Spanish explorers to most of the West Indies, and the continents of Africa and Asia, including the Philippines and Taiwan. It is now cultivated worldwide.
Did you know?
Tapioca starch, used commonly for starching shirts and garments before ironing.
The almond like seed present inside the peach fruit has an anti- cancer medicine called laetrile.
Peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots and almonds are all closely related fruit trees with similar types of center pits and contains the seeds which are almond shaped.
These seeds of all these species in fact contain high concentrations of chemicals l known as laetrile, amygdalin or vitamin B-17.
Research has suggested that laetrile induces programmed cell death in cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone.
This one is really crazy food fact! Did you that the L-Cysteine a common ingredient in the bread is actually derived from human hair?
It is a non-essential amino acid added to many baked goods as a dough conditioner in order to speed industrial processing.
It’s usually not added directly to flour intended for home use. While some L-cysteine is directly synthesized in laboratories, most of it is extracted from a cheap and abundant natural protein source: human hair.
The hair is dissolved in acid and L-cysteine is isolated through a chemical process.
Other sources of L-cysteine include chicken feathers, duck feathers, cow horns and petroleum by products!!
Is it good or bad you decide!!!
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