Mushrooms belong to the plant catefory "fungi". Other fungi we eat include blue cheese mold and yeast.

California is the largest garlic-producing state in the U.S.

The traditional bagel is the only bread product that is boiled before it is baked.

A peach tree can produce a commercial crop for up to 15 to 20 years.

More than 1/4th of households consume turkey deli meat at least once every 2 weeks.

Mediterranean people developed marinating around 500 B.C. the same time Europeans started preserving with salt.

Over half of all Americans choose chocolate chip as their favorite cookie, with oatmeal a distant second.

High-quality durum wheat is the main ingredient in U.S. produced pasta.

The first reference to sweet corn in the U.S. is in Thomas Jefferson"s garden book of 1810.

Americans on averag consume 17 pounds of tomatoes every year.

Finland and France have the higest per capita prune consumption.
(Don't even go there people)

Apels crunch because they are composed of tiny water-filled cells with walls that explode when you take a bite.

Asparagus, a member of the lily family, was first cultivated about 2,500 years ago in Greece.

Botanically speaaking, the blueberry is part of a family that includes azalea, mountain laurel and heather.

The early French called a tomato "The apple Of LOve", and Germans called it "The Apple Of Paradise".

It takes a combine 9 seconds to harvest enough wheat to make 70 loaves of bread.

Percursors to the spoon date back to prehistoric times, when people used shells or wood chips as utensils.

Idaho grows roughly one-third of the U.S. fall potato crop.

During World ll British aviators were fed special English carrot with high beta-carotene to enhance vision.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans take their restaurant leftovers home.--American Demographics magazine

The averag U.S. consumer eats around 48 pounds of apple products annually.