Pineapples were so rare in 18th-century England that people rented them for parties as status symbols.

Eating too many carrots can turn your skin orange due to a condition called carotenemia.

Vanilla is the second most expensive spice after saffron because of how labor-intensive it is to grow and pollinate.

Nutmeg is a hallucinogen in large doses.

The kiwifruit was originally called the Chinese gooseberry — it was rebranded for Western markets in the 1950s.

Broccoli and cauliflower are the same species — Brassica oleracea — just different cultivars.

Kimchi, made from fermented vegetables and chili, has been a Korean staple for over 2,000 years.

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

The flavor of artificial strawberry is based on a single variety of wild strawberry that no longer commercially exists.