Nutmeg is a hallucinogen in large doses.

Sriracha sauce is named after the coastal city of Si Racha in Thailand, where a similar sauce was first made.

A strawberry is not actually a berry, but a banana is.

Raisins, prunes, and currants are all dried fruits with higher natural sugar concentration than their fresh counterparts.

Sauerkraut and kimchi contain more vitamin C than fresh cabbage due to fermentation.

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

Umami, the fifth basic taste, was identified by Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda in 1908 from kombu seaweed.

The world's largest omelet was made with over 145,000 eggs in Portugal in 2012.

Blue food is extremely rare in nature — most blue-colored foods get their hue from added dye.