Fun Facts

Fun Fact! Almond trees are entirely dependent on honeybees for pollination, which has led to an increased need for bees in states like California where almond production is popular.

Fun Fact! In early Egypt, aloe was called the “plant of immortality” and offered as a funeral gift to pharaohs.

Fun Fact! If a raw egg white is cloudy, that could mean the egg is fresh. Raw white becomes cloudy due to carbon dioxide that hasn’t yet escaped through the egg shell. As an egg ages and more carbon dioxide escapes, its egg white becomes clearer.

Fun Fact! Chamomile was used as traditional medicine in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

Fun fact! There are nine known species of echinacea. All species are native to North America.

Fun Fact! An egg takes about 26 hours to form fully in a hen.

Fun fact! Why should you spin an egg to tell whether it is raw or hardboiled? Hardboiled eggs will spin smoothly whereas the liquid in a raw egg makes the raw egg wobble.

Fun fact! Valerian’s medicinal use dates back to early Greece and Rome to treat conditions such as nervousness, trembling, headaches, and heart palpitations.

Fun Fact! No matter their shell color, all eggs are generally similar in terms of nutrient status, unless a hen has been fed higher amounts of a certain nutrient via fortified feed.

Fun Fact! Strawberry plants produce strawberry flowers, which turn into strawberry fruit. The flowers can otherwise also be used as garnish or made into tea.

Fun Fact! A chef’s white hat is called a toque blanche. Historically, the number of pleats in the hat symbolized the number of recipes a chef had mastered.

Fun Fact! The color of a yolk is influenced by a hen’s diet. Marigold petals are often fed to hens to brighten yolk color.

Fun Fact! While California, the top U.S. strawberry producer, can grow strawberries year round due to temperate climate, the strawberry-growing seasons in other states are usually restricted to five months to as little as three weeks.

Fun Fact! Cinnamon comes from the bark of the cinnamon tree.

Fun Fact! An egg’s richest source of nutrients is in the yolk, including vitamins A, D, and E; antioxidants such as lutein and zeaxanthin; and unsaturated fat.

Fun Fact! The ginkgo tree is one of the oldest living tree species in the world.

Fun Fact! A gallon of milk equals approximately 350 “squirts” of milk from a dairy cow’s udders.

Fun Fact! Older eggs are easier to peel than fresh eggs because older eggs have larger air cells (the space between the egg and the shell).

Fun Fact! China is the world’s largest producer of apples, followed by the U.S.

Fun Fact! The practice of cheese making is thought to date back more than 4,000 years.

Fun Fact! Nearly half of an egg’s protein content is contained in the yolk.

Fun fact! There are approximately 280 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. Each chicken produces between 250 and 300 eggs per year.

Fun Fact! Cinnamon comes in many varieties, including Cassia cinnamon (native to China and most commonly sold in the U.S.) and Ceylon cinnamon (native to Sri Lanka).

Fun Fact! American pioneer and nurseryman John Chapman, also known as “Johnny Appleseed,” born in 1774, is credited with introducing apples to America’s Midwest.

Fun Fact! There are two types of chamomile, German and Roman.

Fun Fact! Ginkgo has long been used in traditional Chinese medicine. In early times, Chinese royalty were given ginkgo nuts for senility.

Fun Fact! The world’s largest chicken egg was recorded in 2010 as measuring 9.1 inches in diameter. It was laid by a brave hen in the UK named Harriet.

Fun Fact! Apples are thought to have been eaten by humans for at least 750,000 years.