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1. You can't overcook mushrooms.
There's a special polymer in the cell walls of mushrooms that ensure a tender taste.
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2. Eating lots of carrots will help your eyesight
Vitamin A is essential for good eye health, but eating more than required will not improve eyesight.
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3. Pineapples can take two to three years to grow.
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4. Raw carrots are more nutritious than cooked ones.
Cooking carrots actually increases their nutritional value.
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5. Russia Only Classed Beer As Alcohol In 2011.
Before 2011, beer and any alcoholic beverage under 10% ABV was classified as a soft drink.
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6. A single spaghetti noodle is called a spaghetto.
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7. Gluten free foods are healthier.
Unless you actually have coeliac disease (and just 1 per cent of the population does) there’s no need to go gluten-free.
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8. Most wasabi is just horseradish that's dyed green.
Real wasabi is difficult to grow, very expensive, and should be consumed within 15 minutes of being grated.
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9. A chipotle pepper is just a dried and smoked jalapeño.
And an ancho chile is a dried poblano.
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10. Too much nutmeg can get you high.
It contains myristicin, a compound that has hallucinatory qualities — and brutal side effects — if ingested in very large doses. (Don't try it, obviously.)
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11. Consuming enough Vitamin C prevent colds
Taking a vitamin C supplement is unlikely to prevent a cold. It may, however, make a cold less severe and may shorten its duration
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12. Brown Eggs are healthier than white eggs.
There is no nutritional difference between white and brown eggs.
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13. Peppers (Capsicum) have more vitamin C than oranges.
About two or three times as much, depending on the color of the pepper.
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14. The stickers on fruit are edible.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the "stickers are non-toxic and safe to eat.” , “Even the glue is okay to eat. "
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15. Most raw oysters are still alive when you eat them.
In fact, oysters are stored under very regulated conditions because once they die, they are no longer considered safe to eat.
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16. Cilantro and fresh coriander are the same thing.
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17. Lemons float — but limes sink.
It all comes down to density: limes are slightly denser than lemons.
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18. Peaches and nectarines are essentially the same fruit.
They're nearly genetically identical except for one thing: a gene that determines whether the skin is fuzzy or smooth.
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19. Eggs should be avoided because of their high cholesterol content.
Health experts now know that the cholesterol in food has little impact on our blood cholesterol, unless we have a genetic condition that predisposes us to high cholesterol.
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20. Eating celery burns more calories than it takes in.
Celery doesn’t contain so-called “negative” calories, meaning you won’t burn fat the more you eat.