There are 7,051 food and drink manufacturing companies in the UK alone

In 2007 at least 15 billion worth of products had less salt, sugar and fat in them, than they did in 2004

Mrs Omolaso has pancakes with blueberries, blackberries and strawberries for breakfast every Saturday – yum yum!

Each year food shops give away enough carrier bags to cover the whole of London with a layer of bags.

Every day 80 million food and drinks cans end up in landfill (being buried) - that's one and a half cans per person. In a year, each person could fill a bath with the contents of these cans!

China’s Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time!

Miss Hall's favourite food is beetroot

A peanut is not a nut, it is a legume!

Eating too many carrots can turn your skin orange - so beware!

Worldwide, consumers spend more than £5 billion a year on chocolate!

Goulash, a beef soup was invented in Hungary in the 9^th Century AD

Rice is the staple food of more than one-half of the world’s population

The colour of a chilli pepper is no indication of how spicy it will be, but size usually is – the smaller the chilli the hotter it is

The word “soup” comes from the Middle Ages word “sop”, which means a slice of bread over which roast drippings were poured. The first archaeological evidence of soup being consumed dates back to 6000 B.C, with the main ingredient being Hippopotamus bones!