1. 100 pounds of rain water is required to produce a single pound of food from earth. 2. 11.9 pounds of cereal are consumed by average American / Canadian per year. 3. Do you know that we get only one pound of coffee from one coffee tree? 4. The fear vegetables is called as Lachanophobia. 5. Do you know that the French fries came from Belgium, but they are most popular in USA. 6. The number one selling snack in USA is the Potato chips. 7. Do you know that Russian children are given a birthday pie instead of birth day cake? 8. There are 500 different types of bananas. So if you start eating one type of banana each day, it would take one and half year to eat every kind of banana. 9. Banana is normally treated as a tree, but it is not a tree but a herb. That means it does not have a woody trunk like a tree. The stalk contains leaf sheaths that overlap each other and grow from underground stem called rhizome. 10. The banana plant can grow as high as 20 feet tall. 11. The Americans eat approximately 100 acres of pizza every day which means 350 slices per second. Nearly 3 billion pizzas are sold in USA each year. 12. Tomatoes were originally treated to be poisonous.