Food trivia questions and answers.
- What food is the leading source of salmonella poisoning?
- What company first condensed soup in 1898?
- What nutty legume accounts for one sixth of the world's
vegetable oil production?
- What country saw the cultivation of the first potato, in 200
A.D.?
- What type of lettuce was called Crisphead until the 1920s?
- What tree gives us prunes?
- What type of chocolate was first developed for public
consumption in Vevey, Switzerland in 1875?
- What added ingredient keeps confectioners' sugar from
clumping?
- What edible comes in crimmini, morel, oyster and wood
ear varieties?
- What newly-imported substance caused the first major outbreak
of tooth decay in Europe, in the1500's?
- What fat substitute got FDA approval for use in snack
foods, despite reports of diarrhea and cramps?
- What ingredient in fresh milk is eventually devoured by
bacteria, causing the sour taste?
- What uncooked meat is a trichina worm most likely to make a
home in?
- What baking ingredient, sprayed at high pressure, did the U.S.
Air Force replace its toxic paint stripper with?
- What staple is laced with up to 16 additives including plaster
of paris, to stay fresh?
- What falling fruit supposedly inspired Isaac Newton to write
the laws of gravity?
- What method of preserving food did the Incas first use,
on potatoes?
- What deli sandwich topped Dateline NBC's list for total fat
content - a Reuben, BLT or tuna salad with mayo?
- What drupaceous fruit were Hawaiian women once forbidden by
law to eat?
- What hit the market alongside spinach as the first frozen
veggies?
- How many sizes of chicken eggs does the USDA recognize,
including peewee?
- What are de-headed, de-veined an sorted by size in a
laitram machine?
- What's the only fish that produces real caviar,
according to the FDA?
- What type of egg will yield 11 and one-half average-size
omelettes?
- What's the groundnut better known as?
- What crystalline salt is frequently used to enhance the flavor
to TV dinners?
- What sticky sweetener was traditionally used as an
antiseptic ointment for cuts and burns?
- What should your diet be high in to lessen the chance of
colon cancer, according to a 1990 study?
- What nut do two-thirds of its U. S. producers sell through
Blue Diamond?
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 132 - Food and Eating Trivia.
- Chicken.
- Campbell's.
- The peanut.
- South America.
- Iceberg lettuce.
- The plum tree.
- Milk Chocolate.
- Corn starch.
- Mushrooms.
- Sugar.
- Olestra.
- Lactose.
- Pork.
- Baking soda.
- Bread.
- An Apple.
- Freeze-drying.
- Tuna salad with mayo.
- The coconut.
- Peas.
- Six.
- Shrimp.
- Sturgeon.
- An Ostrich egg.
- The peanut.
- Monosodium glutamate.
- Honey.
- Fiber.
- The Almond.
