7 Veggie Facts

Here are some freaky facts about veggies that we love to eat. There is a lot more to these veggies than you might think.

1. Did you know that cabbage is used by ancient Chinese to cure baldness?

2. Why onions make you cry when you slice them? Onions have sulfuric chemicals that are responsible in irritating your tear ducts.

3. In Europe, they are afraid to eat potatoes because they believed that potatoes can cause leprosy, which is a highly infectious skin disease. Europeans just started eating potatoes when King Louis XVI served them at the royal table. Potatoes are safe to eat.

4. Will you believe that apples, onions and potatoes have the same taste? Yes, they only differ in smell that makes the flavor taste different.

5. Broccoli and Cauliflower are vegetables and at the same time they are also flowers. Broccoli

has much calcium as whole milk.

6. Ancient Egyptians are believed to use onions to fill the eye socket of mummies. And they also used resin covered with onion skin in the mummies’ nostrils.

7. Tomatoes are poisonous? Yes, they were until the people realized that they are safe to eat in 1830.