1.2 billion pounds of potato chips are consumed each year in the United States.
A baked potato (with skin) is a good source of dietary fiber (4 grams).
A Big Mac contains 560 calories.
A horn worm can eat an entire tomato plant by itself in one day.
A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.
A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
A well-done steak, especially if it has "charred" portions, contains much higher levels of carcinogens than a medium-done or rare steak.
About 240 million laying hens produce about 5.5 billion dozen eggs per year in the United States.
About 25% of all iceberg lettuce is made into fresh cut salads.
About 70 million people suffer from food poisoning every year, with about 7 million of these cases being fatal.
About 8% of children and 2% of adults have some kind of food allergy.
Actually a fruit, it took a ruling by the Supreme Court in 1893 to make the tomato a vegetable.
Americans eat 20.7 pounds of candy per person annually. The Dutch eat three times as much.
Americans eat about 30 pounds of lettuce every year. Thats about five times more than what we ate in the early 1900s.
Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza each day, or 350 slices per second.
Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.