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 .

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

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 .

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 .

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.