These 60 Mind-Blowing Food Facts That Will Have You Say, ‘You Gotta Be Forkin’ Kidding Me

21. A Cinnabon® Classic has less sugar than a 20-oz. bottle of Pepsi.

22. Castoreum, which is used as a vanilla flavoring in candies, baked goods, etc., is actually a secretion from the anal glands of beavers.

23. Humans are born craving sugar.

24. Radishes are members of the same family as cabbages.

25. The red food-coloring carmine — used in Skittles and other candies — is made from boiled cochineal bugs, a type of beetle.

26. Casu Marzu is a cheese found in Sardinia that is purposely infested with maggots.

27. The softening agent L-cysteine — used in some bread — is made from human hair and duck feathers.

28. The potentially fatal brain mushroom is considered a delicacy in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the upper Great Lakes region of North America.

29. If improperly prepared, fugu, or puffer fish, can kill you since it contains a toxin 1,200 times deadlier than cyanide.

30. It is almost impossible to find out what all the ingredients are that Papa John’s uses in its pizzas.