A cucumber is about 95% water. A whole one comes to roughly 45 kcal.
Food facts
Short, true things about food, each one checked against a real source.
Watermelon is about 91% water, which is why a big slice is only around 90 kcal.
One tablespoon of olive oil has about 120 kcal, a bit more than a medium banana at 105.
A tablespoon of mayonnaise has about 100 kcal. The same spoon of ketchup has about 17, roughly a sixth.
Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs, thousands of years old and still unspoiled.
Honey bees visit about 2 million flowers to make roughly 450 g of honey.
It takes about 540 peanuts to make a 340 g jar of peanut butter.
In the US, anything sold as peanut butter must by law be at least 90% peanuts.
An average strawberry has about 200 seeds, and all of them are on the outside.
Botanically a banana is a berry, and so are tomatoes and kiwis. Strawberries and raspberries are not.
Bananas are very slightly radioactive because of their potassium. You'd need about 100 to match one day of natural background radiation in the US.
In 1893 the US Supreme Court ruled that a tomato is a vegetable, at least for import taxes. Botanically it is still a fruit.
Every Hass avocado traces back to one tree, planted in the 1920s by a Californian postman named Rudolph Hass. The tree died in 2002.
About 80% of the avocados eaten worldwide are Hass, even though more than 400 varieties exist.
Haribo stands for Hans Riegel, Bonn. He made the first gummy bear, called the Dancing Bear, in 1922.
The Aztecs used cacao beans as money. One bean bought a tamale, and 100 beans bought a good turkey hen.
Three Medjool dates come to about 200 kcal, nearly the same as two medium bananas.
Your brain is about 2% of your body weight, yet it uses about 20% of the calories your body burns.
Digesting food burns energy too. On a mixed diet, about 10% of the calories you eat go into processing the food itself.
Your body spends 20 to 30% of protein's calories just on digesting it. For fat, it is only 0 to 3%.
A gram of fat has 9 kcal, more than twice the 4 kcal in a gram of protein or carbs.
Gold kiwifruit have about 161 mg of vitamin C per 100 g, almost three times as much as oranges.
Broccoli, cabbage, kale, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts are all one species, Brassica oleracea, bred over centuries into different shapes.
Rice is the staple food for more than half of the world's population.
California grows about 80% of the world's almonds.