Searing meat or fish is not done to capture the moisture or juices but for a better flavour and colour.

Searing food makes it lose moisture.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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!

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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.