Are You Smarter Than A Kid When It Comes To Food?

I'm reviewing books for kids that discuss food and nutrition for a project.

As I read these it occurred to me that many adults may not even know some of these basic facts about what we eat and where food comes from.

Here are a few fun facts from one book:

• There are more than 4,000 kinds of tomatoes
• The most popular type of cabbage is white.
• People in Persia may have been the first to have lettuce farms in 550 BC.
• Broccoli only takes about 110 days to grow from a seed to the edible plant.
• Strawberries and roses belong to the same family.
  
• The peas inside a pea pod are seeds.
• Cucumbers grow on a hairy vine. The vine's leaves are shaped like triangles.
• Radishes can be round or look like icicles. They can be red, white, yellow, pink, purple or black.
• If green peppers are left on the plant they turn red, yellow and purple.