Chocolate was once used as currency.

Breads, and particularly flatbreads, have been around for centuries. Flatbreads date back to the Ancient Egyptians. Pita bread has been in existence for at least 12,000 years in Middle-Eastern countries.

The British food and drink industry accounts for 15% of all UK manufacturing GVA.

 

Orange juice  has it’s origins are in south-east Asia, the first New World orange trees were planted in Florida in 1513 by Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León.

Brazil now grows a third of all oranges in the world, of which 85 per cent are used for juice. Brazil’s Cutrale company produces one glass in five of all the orange juice drunk in the world. You don’t see it on packaging as it exports the concentrate, which is then turned into juice and listed as a product of the importing country. It takes 50 glasses of water to grow enough oranges to make one glass of orange juice.

15 million gallons of wine were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.