6 Bizarre Food Facts That Are Hard to Believe

Food facts are something we don't often think about or come across. Here are 6 unbelievable and bizarre food facts you probably didn't know:

French fries are not French

French fries did not originate in France but in Belgium. They are called French fries because they are made in French cut.

Cheese is the most stolen food

Cheese is the most stolen food in the world according to Time magazine. Of all the cheese produced globally, around four per cent gets stolen and is even sold in the black market!

Cocoa beans were once used as money

Ancient civilizations in South America and Mexico traded cocoa beans as a currency. The Aztecs loved cocoa beans but couldn't grow them themselves. They relied on the Mayans for trade.

Nutmeg is a hallucinogen

Nutmeg contains a compound called myristicin, which works like a hallucinogen. It can have hallucinatory effects if consumed in large quantities.

Ketchup was once used as a medicine

In the early 1800s, people believed tomatoes had medicinal properties. A doctor made a recipe for a kind of tomato ketchup in the form of 'tomato pills', claiming to heal indigestion and diarrhoea.

Food tastes different while flying

While flying, the altitude changes the body's chemicals, making some flavours taste different than they usually do.