Breakfast like a King, lunch like a Prince and dinner like a Pauper.

Over 70% of all oils and fats consumed in the world are derived from vegetable crops.

The Swedes drink more coffee per head than any other nation

All bread sold in the UK is fortified with calcium, iron and b vitamins

The most popular species of seafood in retail is cod – in 2005 consumers spent over £365 million on it.

The largest source of vegetable oil is soya. Other main sources include oil palm oilseed rape, sunflowers, groundnuts and cottonseed.

Mycologists make a living out of studying mushrooms and there are over 1200 kinds of edible mushrooms

Sugar is unique as a world agricultural commodity, with two different crops competing for the same market: cane (produced mainly in poor tropical countries) and beet (produced mainly in wealthy temperate countries).

98% of people take milk with tea.

In Japan, bathing in coffee grounds mixed with pineapple pulp is supposed to remove wrinkles

A 'turophile' is a lover of cheese.

Watercress is mentioned so often as an ingredient in detox vegetable juice recipes and as a cure for a variety of ills, that it could virtually be viewed as a staple part of the regime for those wishing to juice their way to health.

The largest egg ever had 5 yolks and was 31cm around the long axis.

The first espresso coffee machine was imported into Britain. Coffee bars were very popular at this time.

If you don’t have breakfast it is more difficult to get all the nutrients that you need in a day

People who maintain an ideal weight eat breakfast. Overweight people tend to skip breakfast

There are approximately 1500 different varieties of tea.

Ten million loaves of bread are baked in Britain every day

A wheat crop will produce on average about 7.5 tonnes of grain per hectare ( A hectare is about the size of an international football pitch) which is enough to make 11,500 loaves of bread.

Anglo-Saxons swore by watercress potage to ‘spring clean’ the blood.

There are around 280 ports, harbours and creeks around the UK where fish is landed. The major fishing ports in the UK in terms of value of fish landed are, Peterhead, Lochinver and Fraserburgh.

All bread is good for you, whether white, brown or wholemeal and it is not fattening

Brazil produces a third of all oranges in the world of which 85% are used for orange juice. The Brazilian state of Sao Paulo alone accounts for half the world's supply of orange juice.

Studies have show that children who eat breakfast perform better at school than those who have not

There are over 400 different types of sausages produced in the UK

Research in the USA has shown that more than 10,000 marriages a year now begin with romances started during coffee breaks

Over 400 billion cups of coffee are drunk around the world every year, which means that the average person on earth drinks about one cup of coffee every six days

One third of adults will have bacon and egg for breakfast at the weekend

10 species account for 75% of all the seafood sold in the UK.

Spain is the fourth largest producer of oranges in the world. Most Spanish oranges are eaten as fresh fruit. Nearly all the fruit are consumed in Europe and are transported to their destination by road.