Food Facts

Bananas are botanically classified as berries, whereas strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries are not true berries by definition livescience.com .

The first oranges weren't orange. They were green. The color was named after the fruit, not the other way around.

Honey never spoils – archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs, thousands of years old, that were still perfectly edible smithsonianmag.com .

In the 1830s, ketchup was sold as a medicine. An Ohio physician named John Cook marketed tomato ketchup as a cure for indigestion and other ailments bestfoodfacts.org .

Lobster was once considered a low-class food in colonial America. It was so abundant and cheap that it was routinely fed to prisoners, apprentices and servants – some even had contracts stipulating they wouldn't be served lobster more than twice a week history.com .

Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.

Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not. Botanically speaking, berries are fruits produced from a single flower with one ovary, while strawberries develop from a flower with multiple ovaries.

Before modern refrigeration, Russians in Siberia would preserve milk by placing live frogs in it. Frog secretions have antimicrobial properties that helped keep the milk from spoiling smithsonianmag.com .