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Food Facts and Fallacies
If it's true that "You are what you eat," then you may have reason to be a little concerned--particularly after learning some things about the foods you eat. But can you separate food fact from food fallacy? Give it a try. Questions and answers adapted from Discovery.com.
1
Eating turkey makes you sleepy.
2
Hostess Twinkies never go bad; they have an indefinite shelf life.
3
Swallowed chewing gum takes seven years to digest and pass through your system.
4
Chop suey, a popular Chinese-restaurant menu item, actually originated in America.
5
Indonesia produces a very expensive kind of coffee made from beans that have been swallowed, digested, and excreted by a small, catlike animal.
6
Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine.
7
Eating chocolate causes acne breakouts.
8
Eating carrots will improve your vision.
9
Eating a poppy-seed bagel or muffin can cause you to fail a drug test.
10
Some red food colorings are made from ground-up insects.
11
Sweet potatoes and yams are the same thing.
12
Drinking cranberry juice can help prevent bladder infections.
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