Question: what is the most crazy science fact about food?

Sian Thomas answered on 20 Jun 2016:

I guess that depends how you define ‘crazy’. But I particularly like things that are a bit strange.

I remember being responsible for drinks policy in the early 2000’s when a number of children turned orange after consuming too much of an at the time popular orange drink. It is a phenomenon, I later learned, you are warned about when introducing solids to babies – don’t do too many orange things together – carrots and sweet potatoes could give your baby an orange tinge!

Some celebrity chefs – thinking Heston Bloomenthal – use some quite cool food science tricks. But even really basic things – like bread and ice-cream – are here because of some really great food chemistry.