Food Trivia Q&A – Part 3

Let’s test your foodie knowledge once again by giving you another 10 food trivia questions. But first let’s take a look at the answers for the last 10 questions we gave you:

1. Orchids
2. In the United States. Its name has nothing to do with the biblical city, but is a corruption of the Italian word for sunflower; girasole.
3. Avocado
4. Fig
5. Hashi
6. Beetroot
7. Greece
8. Almonds
9. Pine nut
10. Rosemary

Here’s another 10 questions. The answers will be posted in the next food trivia post.

1. What food is the leading source of salmonella poisoning?
2. What nutty legume accounts for one sixth of the world’s vegetable oil production?
3. What ingredient in fresh milk is eventually devoured by bacteria, causing the sour taste?
4. What drupaceous fruit were Hawaiian women once forbidden by law to eat?
5. What sticky sweetener was traditionally used as an antiseptic ointment for cuts and burns?
6. What nation produces two thirds of the world’s vanilla?
7. What falling fruit supposedly inspired Isaac Newton to write the laws of gravity?
8. What hit the market alongside spinach as the first frozen veggies?
9. What newly-imported substance caused the first major outbreak of tooth decay in Europe, in the1500′s?
10. What country saw the cultivation of the first potato, in 200 A.D.?