Tomatoes, avacados, corn, cucumbers, eggplants, green beans, melons, okra, peppers, pumpkins, and squash are all technically fruits .
The scientific definition of fruit classifies all of them as fruits, even though fruits are generally thought to be sweet.

All species of beetle are edible.

Almonds are not nuts, they are members of the peach family.

Gum cannot be digested by the stomach, but it does go out after a while.
A swallowed peice of gun will not stay in your stomach for seven years, or for the rest of your life.

Bananas do not grow on trees- they grow on rhizomes.

Canola oil is actually called rapeseed oil. The name was changed for marketing reasons.

Coca Cola has no coca and no cola in it.

Coca Cola was green when it was first created.

Sushi is not always made from raw fish.
Sushi can also be 'vegetarian' and with all sorts of different ingredients.

German Chocolate Cake was not named after Germany, but after the ingredient used, German’s Sweet Chocolate.
German's Sweet chocolate was also not named after the country but after Sam German, its creator.

Carrots will not improve vision. They help keep your eyes healthy.
No vitamins can actually improve your body. They keep you healthy so your body does not get worse.

Apples wake you up more effectively in the morning than caffeine, and are a lot healthier!

Bananas are really easy to digest when ripe, but not when still green.
Green bananas contain a lot of starch, which needs to be turned into sugar. When ripe, the banana has already turned the starches into sugar.

If you have a bad heart, eating steak will cause heart problems.
Steak is very high in fat. This fat gets into the blood stream and may cause heart attacks or other complications.

Salt is good for the body, but we get enough naturally from food that we eat, without extra salting.

Drinking a cup of black tea after a high fat meal may lessen the amount of fat in the blood stream.

Feeding a dog chocolate might cause it to have a heart attack or seizure.
However, you would need a lot of chocolate, and also this depends on the type of chocolate the dog ate (i.e. dark chocolate, milk chocolate, etc.)

New Zealand spinach, Malabar spinach, and spinach are botanically unrelated.

Chemical additives in food cause us more good than harm.
Many chemicals prevent food from spoiling. These chemicals are added in small quantities, and cannot harm us.

In most eggs, salmonella bacteria exist only on the shell, and not inside.
This is why eggs should always be cracked with a knife and not on the edge of a bowl.

Your body can regulate by itself how much water you should drink. You do not need to keep track of it.
Your body will get rid excess water, or retain it. If you are not getting enough you will feel thirsty.

Butter and margarine have the same amount of calories.

It is better to cook with butter than with margarine. When heated, margarine can be very unhealthy.

A glass of fruit juice, even freshly squeezed, does not have the same nutritional content as the whole fruit.
A lot of fibre is lost in the juicing process. Also, a lot more of the fruit is needed to get a cup of juice, so it is more concentrated with sugar.

Fruit has a lot of sugar in it too, though it is healthier than processed sugars and fats.

Chocolate milk actually has more minerals than ordinary milk, and it does not cause tooth decay.
Chocolate milk does not have a lot of caffeine either, nor does it raise cholesterol levels.

Carrots can also be purple and white.
They are this way naturally.

Shortening is what makes a pie crust flaky; butter cannot be substituted for the same results.
Butter and shortening are not the same thing; butter has a lot more flavour.

Icing sugar and confectioners' sugar are the same thing.
They are two names for one ingredient.

Plastic containers cannot release dioxins into the food if put into the microwave.
Even if the chemicals to form dioxins were present, they would need to be heated to at least 700 degrees farenheit.

Margerine was not invented as a turkey fattener.
It is said that it was created as a turkey food that makes them fat.

Baby carrots are actually normal sized carrots cut into their shape by a machine.
They do not grow naturally in their small size.

Blueberries and cranberries are not related to strawberries or raspberries.

Turkey does not make people particularily drowsy.
Turkey contains tryptophan (which makes you sleepy) but not more than chicken or minced beef. Foods like cheese or pork contain even more.

Bananas are berries.

Dark beers do not always contain more alcohol.
The colour depends on the toasted malts, which do not change the amount of alcohol.

Baby carrots are not made from deformed large carrots, or preserved in chlorine.
Baby carrots were created so strangely shaped carrots could have a uniform size. This is not done anymore.