Broccoli contains more protein per calorie than steak.

The most expensive pizza in the world costs $12,000 and is topped with three types of caviar, buffalo mozzarella, and lobster from Norway.

Avocados are one of the only fruits that contain significant fat — mostly heart-healthy monounsaturated oleic acid.

White chocolate is not technically chocolate because it contains no cocoa solids.

The ghost pepper was once used by the Indian military to make non-lethal chili grenades.

The first junk food, cotton candy, was invented by a dentist in 1897.

Honey is the only food that never spoils — edible honey has been found in 3,000-year-old Egyptian tombs.

Medieval European nobles once ate a dish called 'cockentrice' — a pig sewn to a capon (castrated rooster).

Nutmeg is hallucinogenic in large doses due to the compound myristicin — but the lethal dose is very small.