1. The red food-coloring carmine, that is the outside layer of a skittle, is made from boiled cochineal bugs, wich is a type of beetle source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/justinabarca/food-facts-that-will-blow-your-mind (fact 25)

2. The origin of the ice cream cone. The ice cream cone is actually invented accidentally. In the year 1904 at the St. Louis World’s Fair was a man that sold waffle-like pastries. There was also a shop close to him that sold ice cream, but unfortunately he ran out of dishes. So the man that sold these waffle-like pastries decided to roll them up and gave the to the man that sold the ice cream so he had something to put his ice cream in. source: https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/8-famous-foods-discovered-by-mistake (fact 3)

3. What a lot of people think is that pineapples grow on trees, but they don’t, they actually grow on the ground! source: https://www.popsci.com/how-foods-grow#page-2

4. The first food ever to be microwaved was popcorn, wich went well for the experimenter, but the second thing that was microwaved was an egg. This didn’t went well, it exploded. popcorn wasn’t invented this way, it already existed since 3600BC. sources: 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn

5. Did you know that food that you eat regularly contains poo or insect parts? E.g. candy bars, ground beef,… I’m not kidding, this was really tested. People have tested 300 packages of ground beef, and the result was stunning. Every piece they tested had fecal contamination ( insect parts,…)
source: https://www.toptenz.net/10-foods-drinks-contain-pee-poop.php
