Random Facts

So, being home for Thanksgiving, I'm of course grateful to see my best friend at home again.  I'm also grateful for her wide range of random and almost completely useless, little-known facts about nutrition.  I don't know how she picks up on these things, but over the past few days, she's shared quite a few of these random facts.  Some gems of her wisdom:

- Canned vegetables, such as corn and peas, have more vitamins and are healthier for you than frozen vegetables.

-Dented cans rust; nondented cans don't.

-Most people who died on Arctic expeditions (north or south pole) died from lead poisoning in their canned rations, not because of any occurrence on their journey.

- The best snack is a rice krispie.  The sugar in the snack gives you energy quickly, but the rice cereal breaks down more slowly and gives you energy later on also.

-Onions only smell if they're going bad or rotting.  Good onions hardly smell at all.

-Iceberg lettuce has a lot less iron and other vitamins than any other sort of greener lettuce.  In general, the darker green the lettuce, the healthier.