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Hi guys, here you have this weeks fun facts about vegetables.

Cucumbers:
The skin of a cucumber can apparently erase those ink stains from your desk, by just rubbing it over the surface after it got stained. It also is very good for your brain. Cucumbers can protect your nerve cells from age-related decline and it can also improve your memory.

Carrots:
Turning orange from eating too much carrots isn’t a myth. Carrots contain beta-carotene, which causes the orange colour. If you eat too much of this, the beta-carotene will enter your bloodstream, but since it can’t be broken-down, it will be picked up in your skin and can leave you with an orange/yellow colour. But don’t worry eventually your skin will break this down, and you will look totally normal again. But don’t stop eating carrots, because of this, because it also contains a lot of vitamin A, which is really good for your eyes and can avoid night blindness.

Potatoes:
Potato plants were taken into space into 1996 on the Columbia space shuttle where they were grown. According to NASA, these “Quantum Tubers” involved “combining an agricultural technique from China with controlled environment technologies originally developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison for plant growth in space.” Potatoes are often thought of as a comfort food thanks to their high starch content and many of the methods that they are cooked with, but they are also really good for you when they’re not fried or covered in butter, cheese, or sour cream. Potatoes are a good source of vitamin B6, potassium, copper, vitamin C, manganese, phosphorus, niacin, dietary fiber, and pantothenic acid. Some studies have found that potatoes contain a compound called kukoamines which can help to lower the blood pressure..

Celery:
Many people call foods like celery a negative calorie food since it is so low in calories that it’s assumed that you burn them all off just chewing and digesting the damn thing. However, science says that negative calorie foods don’t actually exist. Personally, I still would like to believe that they do, just because. Apparently, a single stalk of celery has somewhere between six and ten calories, and about eight out of ten of them would still count. There is something called the TEF (Thermal Effect of Food) which is a metric calculation that figures these types of things out. It usually only adds up to about ten to 20 percent of the food. But let’s be honest, the eight calories from eating a stalk of celery probably aren’t going to cause you a whole lot of issues… especially compared to the calories in the bloody mary that it came out of.

Tomatoes:
You know that tomatoes are actually botanically a fruit, but they are legally considered a vegetable thanks to a decision the government made in the late 1800s. Like many other things the government does, their intention was to make money. Back then there was a trade tariff in place that taxed vegetables not fruits, so they called it a vegetable so that it would be taxed every time it was imported into the country. It seems like one of those choices that make you scratch your head, but how can you do that, but the Supreme Court said so and continues to say so today. It works out fine enough since tomatoes seem more like a savory veggie thanks to their low sugar content, but we know the truth. Tomatoes are super good sources of vitamins A, C, and K, and are quite good sources of vitamin B6, folate, and thiamin.

If you can’t for other fun facts to appear on here, go and check out this site for more vegetable facts!
https://www.thetalko.com/15-weird-facts-about-vegetables/