08 June 18: Birdseed

People dish out 500,000 metric tons of birdseed each year in the United States and the United Kingdom.

08 June 17: Cereal

Mothers who eat at least one bowl of cereal per day are more likely to bear sons.

08 May 5: Advertising

2 in 3 U.S. public schools accept advertising from corporations that sell junk food.

08 May 3: Calories

For every year after 30, women require seven fewer calories per day.

08 May 2: Intervention

The Snobby Coffee Intervention at Un-Snobby Coffee is a Washington McDonald's marketing campaign designed to ‘help a friend kick their snobbish habit.’

08 April 14: Taste

Taste is about 75% smell.

08 April 5: Mozart

Mozart loved chocolate so much he referenced it in the opera Cosi Fan Tutte.

08 March 14: Laced

Four Danish prison guards have been treated for poisoning after eating a drug-laced cake baked by prisoners.

08 February 28: Candies

In 2007, ‘sales of Halloween themed candies led the way with a 4.8% increase in chocolate Halloween themed candies and an 8.7% increase in non-chocolate themed candies. This trend, which started in 2005, shows retailers focused on packaging decorated with Halloween themes such as witches and goblins...’

08 February 3: Consumption

Superbowl Sunday is the second-largest U.S. food consumption day, following Thanksgiving.

December 21: Tryptophan

Evidence shows that tryptophan, a chemical in turkey, can cause drowsiness, but turkey contains the same amount of tryptophan, gram per gram, as chicken and ground beef.

December 18: Head

Before the arrival of turkey, the traditional Christmas meal was a pig's head and mustard.

November 19: Pop Tarts

From Today in History: Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries were created on this day in 1965.

November 7: Turkey

Of Turkey's 70 million people, 65% are under 34 years old.

October 31: Eggs

Six billion eggs are cracked in Canadian kitchens each year.

October 25: Baileys

Baileys Irish Cream was launched on November 26, 1974 having cost $40,000 to bring to production. The Milk from 40,000 cows is used to supply the cream used in the production of Baileys in Ireland.

October 19: Lipstick

You will swallow two kilos of lipstick in your lifetime.

September 22: Costs

‘The rising demand for corn as a source of ethanol-blended fuel is largely to blame for increasing food costs around the world.’

September 20: Tea

PR Week has called The Boston Tea Party ‘the greatest and best-known publicity stunt of all time.’

September 19: Food

‘Percentage change in the average amount of food a person will consume when eating with one other person: +35’

‘Percentage change with four or seven others, respectively: +75, +96’