16 Facts About Food That Will Blow Your Mind

#1. A serving size for Nacho Cheese Doritos is a measly, mouse-sized portion of 11 chips.

#2. Double-dipping spreads no more germs than single-dipping.

#3. All Froot Loops taste exactly the same, regardless of color.

#4. Girl Scout cookies are actually made by two different bakeries and sold under different names.

#5. Twinkies go mouldy after around 45 days, contrary to the popular belief that they last forever.

#6. This is the sad interior of a Cup O’ Noodles.

#7. Mathematicians worked out that Double-Stuff Oreos contain only 1.86 times more “stuff”.

#8. Carrots do absolutely nothing for your eyesight.

#9. Subway’s “footlong” is in fact a paltry 11-inches of betrayal.

#10. Cap’n Crunch was recently revealed as a commander, due to the stripes on his uniform.

#11. Grape-Nuts contain neither grapes, nor nuts.

#12. Five seconds is plenty of time for germs to make a new home in your food. Sorry.

#13. Peanuts are legumes, not nuts. And they grow underground like tiny potatoes.

#14. German chocolate cake isn’t German; it’s named after Sam German who invented baking chocolate.

#15. Oranges can be green, but when imported to the US they’re treated with gas to turn them orange.

#16. Baby carrots are just carrots deemed too ugly for sale sliced up.