Today I will tell you random facts about vegetables you probable didn't know. Lets begin! 1#, Tomatoes Were Once Considered Poisonous. For quite some time, people avoided eating anything from the nightshade family because they considered them to be deadly poisonous. In addition to tomatoes, the family includes potatoes, eggplants, and peppers. However, this belief was challenged when people were eating a lot of these vegetables out of desperation during a time of famine and nothing happened. Since then, tomatoes have been quite popular.
2#, You Can Use Cucumbers As Erasers.Supposedly if you make a mistake writing with a pen, you can use the outside skin of a cucumber to erase it. Cucumbers are also, of course, great for eating. They're 95 percent water so they are a great choice to eat when you're trying to stay hydrated. They are a good source of vitamin K, the B vitamins, copper, potassium, vitamin C, and manganese. Cucumbers contain an anti-inflammatory flavonoid called fisetin which seems to play an important role in keeping the brain healthy, by protecting the nerve cells from age-related decline and improving the memory. 3#, Eating Too Many Carrots Really Does Turn You Orange. You've probably heard this rumor before... because it's true. You would have to eat quite a lot of them for this to actually occur, but it's possible and it has definitely happened. Carrots and other orange vegetables are high in beta-carotene which is what gives them the color. If you ingest too much beta-carotene it will actually enter your bloodstream and since it does not get broken down in the body it gets deposited on the skin. 4#, Potatoes Were The First Food To Be Grown In Space. Potato plants were taken into space into 1996 on the Columbia space shuttle where they were grown. According to NASA, these “Quantum Tubers” involved “combining an agricultural technique from China with controlled environment technologies originally developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison for plant growth in space.” Funny extras: Fun fact about Brussel sprouts, Daddy thinks there best left in the trash. Ashleigh
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