The Oldest Snack Food: Popcorn Popping popcorn is over 6,500 years old, and it originated in Peru. It was created by wrapping the appropriate popcorn cob in a husk and then placing it on smoldering coals. Corn was first domesticated around 10,000 years ago in Mexico.
Popcorn is known as an ancient snack. Scientists agree that popcorn (and corn in general) originated in the Americas. Research shows that people in coastal regions of Peru were eating popcorn 6,700 years ago.
Popcorn is truly ancient. Archaeologists have uncovered popcorn kernels that are 4,000 years old. They were so well-preserved, they could still pop. In 2012, scientists discovered popcorn cobs that were grown even earlier — more than 6,000 years ago.
Popcorn is perhaps the oldest of all. Archaeological sites in Peru and Mexico recently yielded 7,000 year old maize husks said to be evidence of popcorn preparation and consumption by ancient indigenous peoples.
Corn was domesticated about 10,000 years ago, in what is now Mexico. Archaeologists discovered that people have known about popcorn for thousands of years. Fossil evidence from Peru suggests that corn was popped as early as 4,700 BC. Through the 19th century, popping of the kernels was achieved by hand, on stove tops.
The First Popped Corn
Corn was probably cultivated as a domesticated crop around 9,000 years ago, but it wasn't until 2012 that archaeologists unearthed the first evidence of popcorn in Peru: 6,700-year-old corn cobs studded with puffed kernels.
Historical clues suggest that popcorn and milk sprinkled with sugar was the first version of what we know consider cold breakfast cereal.
Here is the answer for you! Bread is considered to be first prepared probably some 30000+ years back and is one of the very first foods made by mankind.
Studies show that the city dwellers ate a variety of meats, dairy, grains and other plants. The shards yielded traces of proteins found in barley, wheat and peas, along with several animal meats and milks.
Oldest preserved foods
Honey and alcohols, among others, have been one of the oldest found edible foods. For example ancient Egyptian honey has been found and consumed.
Furthermore, French explorers who traveled to the new world discovered popcorn being made by the Iroquois Native Americans in the Great Lakes region. As colonists moved around North America, and as the United States of America came to be, people adopted this snack more and more.
Seriously… Healthy whole grains like brown rice, whole grain bread, oatmeal and even popcorn contain fibres and vitamins that improve blood flow throughout the brain and help memory function. They also improve blood-sugar stability, which can curb study-interrupting cravings.
Evidence of popcorn's first “pop” did not appear until the 1820s, when it was sold throughout the eastern United States under the names Pearl or Nonpareil.
Popcorn is an excellent low-calorie, high-quality carbohydrate made from fiber-rich whole grains. And, as long as you aren't dousing it with butter and salt, it's healthy too! All that makes it a fabulous choice for a midnight snack. Air-popped is best.
Popcorn was discovered over 5,000 years ago in Mexico. It was an Indian food. Corn was thrown on hot stones in a fire. The fire made the corn pop.
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"The Romans believed it was healthier to eat only one meal a day," food historian Caroline Yeldham told BBC News Magazine in 2012. "They were obsessed with digestion and eating more than one meal was considered a form of gluttony. This thinking impacted on the way people ate for a very long time."
Hunter-gatherer societies ate raw meat. Hunter-gatherers also ate plants found in the wild, such as seeds, nuts, and berries. By the end of the Stone Age, humans began to grow their own crops, domesticate animals, and use fire to cook food.
Prior to about 3.5 million years ago, early humans dined almost exclusively on leaves and fruits from trees, shrubs, and herbs—similar to modern-day gorillas and chimpanzees.
Our ancestors in the palaeolithic period, which covers 2.5 million years ago to 12,000 years ago, are thought to have had a diet based on vegetables, fruit, nuts, roots and meat.
Figs. Scientists and historians have found evidence of fig cultivation dating back over 11,000 years ago in Jericho on the West Bank. Figs are really a fascinating fruit with a long and significant history!
Abstract. Bread and cheese have been a popular combination since early times. Indeed, the history of bread dates back to 8000 BC and that of cheese to 7200 BC.
Ahead of its time and very likely a role model for breakfast cereals to come, popcorn was eaten more than 150 years ago just as we eat cereal today. Long before the advent of the corn flake, Ella Kellogg enjoyed her popcorn ground with milk or cream.
Kellogg was working with his brother Will on a new kind of wheat meal for patients at the sanitarium when the process that resulted in Corn Flakes was accidentally discovered. Rolling out wheat dough that had been forgotten overnight, the brothers discovered that instead of loaves of bread they got thin flakes.
The first person to make popcorn did it accidentally when a kernel of corn ended up getting heated up by the sun to such a degree that it actually popped.