People were using garlic to repel long before Bram Stoker's was published. Folklorists suggest it is because vampires have a heightened sense of smell and the garlic's strong smell was overpowering. Garlic is proven to be effective against two other bloodsuckers: mosquitoes and ticks.

Eskimos use refrigerators to stop their food from freezing.

Gummy Bears are only 79 millimetres long in length.

Baked beans are low in fat and have a lot of fibre and protein.

The earliest form of eating processed food occurred in early hunting cultures when the men who made a kill would be rewarded with a meal of the partially digested contents of the stomach of their prey.

In America, anchovies always rank last on the list of favourite toppings.

Chili peppers are hot because they contain a substance called alkaloid capsaicin and four other related chemicals. It is also the primary ingredient in pepper spray.

Bread has become the prime symbol of nourishment and sharing bread is often a symbolic gesture. The word 'companion' is derived from Latin, 'together,' and, 'bread.'

An average ear of corn has an even number of rows, usually 16.

A row of corn always has an even number.

During the average meal, you eat over 90,000 miles of DNA.

Ancient Egyptian priests would eat figs at the moment of their consecration ceremonies. The Indians consecrated the fig tree to Vishnu, and the fig free sheltered Romulus and Remus (the traditional founders of Rome) at their birth.

Cadbury’s Cream Eggs first went on sale in 1971.

Honey is the only food that will never rot, it can last 3000 years.

The spiciness of a chili pepper is not in its seeds but in the white pith inside the pepper.

Australians are the world's biggest meat eaters, consuming almost 200lbs each every year, closely followed by Americans.

Eating pasta that has been cooked, cooled, and then reheated is significantly healthier than eating it freshly cooked because it turns into “resistant starch,” reducing blood glucose levels by half.

There is no single food that provides all the nutrients that humans need, except for breast milk.

There is an amusement park in Tokyo that offers Raw Horse Flesh-flavored ice cream.

Norman Borlaug, an agricultural scientist, developed new strains of crops which yielded 4 times as much food . He is said to have saved the lives of over a billion people, making him one of the most influential men in human history.