24 Food Facts That Will Make Rethink Your Next Meal

9. Cheez-Its contain paprika!

It seems like a small, insignificant detail and yet it blows my mind on a regular basis.

10. Haribo green gummy bears aren’t lime or green apple flavored, but strawberry!

11. There are two types of hot dog buns: regular and New England style.

A real shocker for people from New England.

12. Strawberries aren’t berries, but bananas are!

Despite its name, the strawberry isn’t a true berry. Neither is the raspberry or the blackberry. But the banana, it turns out, is a berry, scientifically speaking, as are eggplants, grapes and oranges. (Live Science)

13. Pineapple juice can help tenderize meat (thank you, Food Wars!).

14. Shredded cheese has cellulose, which is a wood product (aka sawdust) so that it doesn’t stick together.

15. Eating lollipops is just swallowing flavored saliva.

16. Hawaiian pizza was invented in…CANADA.

The Hawaiian pizza, which has sent the world into a craze about pineapples going on pizza, was invented in my little town, the town that literally nothing ever happens in — Chatham, Ontario.