Amazing Facts About Idaho Water

Americans consume 17.3 billion quarts of popped popcorn each year! The average American eats about 68 quarts.

Americans eat about 30lbs. of lettuce every year. That's about five times more than what we ate in the early 1900's.

The same chemicals that gives tart cherries their color may relieve pain better than aspirin and ibuprofen in humans. Eating about 20 tart cherries a day could reduce inflammatory pain and headache pain.

The dairy cow, in one day, consumes:                  35 gallons of water                  20 pounds of grain and concentrated feed                  35 pounds of hay or silage

     The bright orange color of carrots tell you they're an excellent source of Vitamin A which is important for
        good eyesight, especially at night. Vitamin A helps your body fight infection, and keeps you skin and hair

        healthy.

    There are over 500 different types of bananas. That means if you ate a different kind of banana everyday, it

         would take almost a year and a half to eat every kind.

In the U.S. in 1998, hens produce 6,657,000,000 dozen eggs - that's 6.657 billion dozen! After these eggs were laid, about two-thirds were sold in the shell and one third of them were broken - not by accident, but on purpose. Because after the eggs are broken out of there shells, they can be made into liquid, frozen, dried and specialty egg products. The egg shell may have as many as 17,000 tiny pores over its surface. Through them, the egg can absorb flavors and odors.

Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.

A hive of bees flies over 55,000 miles to bring you one pound of honey. A honey bee can fly 15 miles per hour. Honey bees visit 50-100 flowers during one honey collecting trip Every year in the United States each person uses the equivalent of one tree, 100 feet tall and 16 inches in diameter, to fulfill their wood and paper needs

 source: Farm Facts by American Farm Bureau Federation