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13 mind-blowing facts about food

Meg JosephsonJun 10, 2016, 20:38 IST

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Which of these statements is true?

a) Farm-raised salmon has to be dyed pink, otherwise it would be white.

b) Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.

Spoiler alert: both of them.

There are countless mind-blowing food facts, but Quora users set out to find the most shocking of them all in a thread on their question-and-answer site.

We gathered the most surprising facts.