Food trivia questions and answers with questions about Ketchup, Baked Beans, Kiwi Fruit, cranberry juice, beer, clams, and more.

What is the official state beverage of Massachusetts?
A: Cranberry juice. The state's cranberry crop is the nation's largest.

What food product overtook ketchup as the top-selling condiment in the United States in 1991?
A: Salsa.

What fruit was originally named the Chinese gooseberry?
A: The kiwi.

What common salad ingredient belongs to the aster family?
A: Lettuce.

What is Danish pastry known as in Denmark?
A: Vienna bread--Wienerbrod, in Danish.

What is the only essential vitamin not found in the white potato?
A: Vitamin A.

Under federal guidelines, how mulch alcohol can there be in beer labeled "non-alcoholic"?
A: Up to .4999 percent.

What delicacy is named for the city of Cheriton, Virginia?
A: The cherrystone clam (the town was originally known as cherry Stones).

What is the Asiatic cordial kumiss made from?
A: Fermented mare's or cow's milk.

Under U.S. Agriculture Department guidelines, what percentage of a meatball has to be meat?
A: At least 65 percent.

What popular lunch and snack food did an unidentified St. Louis doctor develop in 1890 for patients requiring an easily digested form of protein?
A: Peanut butter.  Five years later, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg filed for  a patent for the "process of preparing nut meal"--a spread of steamed peanuts that was not very popular with patients at his Battle Creek, Michigan, sanitarium.

What do Eskimos use to prevent their food from freezing?
A: Refrigerators.

What animal's milk is used to make authentic Italian mozzarella cheese?
A: The water buffalo's.

What is the worlds\'s largest herb?
A: The banana.

If you order the 5 Bs for dinner in New England, what will you  be served?
A: Boston baked beans and brown bread.

In the world of food, what is pluck?
A: An animal's heart, liver and lungs.

What is a cluster or bunch of bananas called?
A: A hand. Individual bananas are known as fingers.

What part of the orange is the albedo?
A: The bitter-tasting white tissue that makes the peel stick to the skin.

What is the BRAT diet?
A: A diet of bananas, rice, applesauce and toast that's often prescribed for infants with diarrhea.

Why are canned herring called sardines?
A: The canning process for herring was developed in Sardinia, and the fish were first canned there.

Who introduced the gin and lime juice cocktail we know as the gimlet?
A: Sir T.O. Gimlette, a British naval surgeon at the turn of the century who believed that drinking strait gin was unhealthy and impaired the efficiency of naval officers=so he began diluting it with lime juice.

What would you get if you ordered a Mae West in a diner?
A: A figure-eight cruller.

Which fruit has a variety known as Winter Banana?
A: The apple.

Which is the only U.S. state to produce coffee?
A: Hawaii.

What part of the strawberry plant is the true fruit?
A: The seed.  The delicacy that we eat and call the fruit is actually the swollen end of the stem called a drupe.

What percentage of whole milk is water?
A: 87 percent.

How many kernels of durum wheat are used to make a pound of pasta?
A: Approximately 16,550.

What part of the banana is used to make banana oil?
A: No part. Banana oil, a synthetic compound made with amyl alcohol is named for its banana-like aroma. It is used primarily as a paint solvent and in artificial flavoring.

From what part of the cinnamon tree do we get the spice?
A: The inner bark of young wood.

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