Food Tidbits

(From KidBits, available in Kids InfoBits, which includes ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology)

• On average, Americans eat 350 slices of pizza every second.
• Dunkin' Donuts sells about 1 billion cups of coffee a year.
• Restaurant dinner orders often include a soft drink (25.2%), French fries (24.8%), pizza (24.1%), hamburger (16.7%), and side salad (16.3%).
• An average American eats 1,400 chickens, 21 cows, 14 sheep, and 12 pigs during his or her lifetime.
• Americans eat about 10 pounds of breakfast cereal a year.
• Each day, an average of about 1 million boxes of Jell-O are bought in the United States. People in Salt Lake City eat more lime Jell-O than people in any other city in the United States.
• Americans' favorite grain food is bread, followed by cereal, rice, and pasta.
• Each year more than 10 billion doughnuts are made in the United States.
• Vanilla is the most popular ice cream flavor. On average, each American consumes about 47 pints of ice cream each year.