Interesting Statistics on Food

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Here is a list I have gathered from various and sundry emails that have been sent to me. I was hesitant to post it but since there have been similiar lists I thought I would give it a try. 1. Iceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other country in the world. 2. During your lifetime you will consume 60,000 pounds of food, the weight of about 6 elephants. 3. Americans eat more than 700 million pounds of peanut butter and 2 billion pounds of chocolate a year. 4. It takes 548 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter. 5. Gum on postage stamps have from 2 to 8 calories. 6. The white powder on chewing gum is actually sweetened marble dust. 7. There are more than 1.000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats. 8. When Heinz catsup leaves the bottle, it travels an average of 25 miles per year. 9. Russia's best selling candy bar: Snickers. 10. Pound for pound (kilo for kilo), hamburgers are cost more than new cars. 11. Some toothpastes contain antifreeze. 12. The average American eats about 7 pounds of potato chips a year. 13. Smelling bananas/green apples (smelling, not eating, can help you lose weight. 14. The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal a year. And to top it all off..... 15. The World Record for passing gas was set on Japanese TV 3,000 times in a row. 16. Each day 14,000 tons of garbage are dumped into Fresh Kills, NY, the largest landfill in the world.