Surprising Food Facts You Didn't Know

Honey found in Egyptian tombs after three thousand years is still edible. <break time="0.5s" /> Honey never spoils

because it has very little water and a naturally acidic pH that stops microbes from growing. <break time="0.5s" />

Egyptians even placed honey in graves as food for the afterlife, trusting its eternal

quality. <break time="1.0s" /> Before the 17th century, carrots were purple, yellow,

red and even black; orange carrots didn’t exist. <break time="0.5s" /> The first carrots were domesticated

5 000 years ago in what is now Afghanistan. Most were purple <break time="0.5s" /> In the 1600s, Dutch farmers bred

the sweet orange carrot and adopted it as a symbol of the House of Orange. <break time="1.0s" /> In Aztec markets,

cacao beans were money. One bean could buy a tamale and a hundred beans could buy