During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
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Americans eat about 700 million pounds of peanut butter and 2 billion pounds of chocolate a year.
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It takes 548 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
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There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
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The average American eats about seven pounds of potato chips a year.
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When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
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Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
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Russia’s best selling candy bar: Snickers.
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The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
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On average, each American ate 4.4 pounds of jelly last year.
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Pound for pound (kilo for kilo), hamburgers cost more than new cars.
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Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.
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It takes eighteen minutes to cool hot chocolate into a Hershey’s Kiss.
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Americans eat close to 10 billion donuts every year.
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Two-thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in New Jersey.