The average consumer eats about 5 pounds of peaches per year, according to the USDA.
"Pasta" comes from the Italian word for paste, meaning a combination of flour and water.
Grapes are always picked ripe, as they do not ripen further once off the vine.
It takes about 250 cherries to make a cherry pie. On average, a tree could produce enough cherries for 28 pies each harvest.
Olive oil is the second best-selling type of cooking oil in the U.S.
Today, the U.S. is the largest tomato producer in the world.
Accordingto the American Pasta Report, the most popular pasta dishes are spaghetti, lasagna and macaroni and cheese.
If an annual crop of California strawberries was lined up berry to berry, it would cross the nation 149 times.
When Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldren ate their first meal on the moon, their foil packets contained roasted turkey.
The bagel was invented by an Austrian baker in 1683.
The custom of serving fresh fruit such as apples after a meal arose from their supposed digestive benefits.
The graham cracker was named for its inventor, Sylvester Graham, who was a 19th century American clergyman.
American Charles Birdseye invented the process of deep-freezing foods in 1920.
Early cookbooks suggested taking kettles of boiling water to the field to capture corn's full flavor quickly.
Carrots belong the same family as celery, fennel, dill and parsley.
It takes 5 to 8 years for an olive tree to bear its first fruit.
More than 600 pasta shapes are produced worldwide.
wheat was first planted in the U.S. in 1777 as a hobby crop.
About 79% of people sit at their own place at the table during meals---Yanklovich Partners/Kraft Kitchens.
June is National Turkey Lovers' Month.
Pumpkins range in size from less than a pound to more than 1,000 pounds.
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