Facts about Food Friday – Candy hogs
FAF #2In 1980, Americans consumed 16.1 lbs. of candy *per person.* In ’93, that jumped to 21.9lbs. The candy industry actually set a goal for “25 by 95,” but it didn’t meet it. By ’98, though, it was up to 25.2lbs per person, though.
Seriously? That was back in 1998, so I can’t even imagine what it is now. That’s the most updated statistic I can find, though. That works out to be roughly 195 candy bars a year.
The thing is, I know I don’t eat a candy bar every other day. I don’t even eat one every week. There are a lot of other people who eat even less candy than I do. You know what that means? There are tons of people who eat waaayy more than I do to average that number out. Holy cow.
Facts about Food Friday
I suppose I could make it Fun Facts About Food for a double set of double f’s. Or Friday For Fun Food Facts. Ooo, FFFFF. The internet geek inside me wants to point out how close that is to the HTML code for white (#FFFFFF). #Four Fun Food Facts For Fridays? Oh yeah…
Um, no. Anyway, we’ll keep it simple and every Friday, at least for a while, I want to try out posting some quirky food facts. I love, love, love food, and that includes learning about it (although I can’t say I enjoy that -more- than eating it, hehe).
FAF #1
By weight, 98% of food additives are sugar, corn syrup, pepper, mustard, baking soda, baking powder, critic acid, salt, or a vegetable-coloring agent.
While I know corn syrup is a source of much controversy lately, I’m more scared of what that other 2% might contain. Yikes.
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