weird food facts

HOW FLIES EAT

Flies cannot chew. They have to suck up their food. Flies have mouth parts that absorb food like a sponge. Their food has to be in a liquid form in order for them to eat it. They have a tongue shaped like a drinking straw to slurp up their meals. Flies that eat nectar or blood do so by using their tongue which is called a proboscis. Even flies that eat other insects do so by sucking out the insides of their victims. When a housefly lands on our food, it vomits on the food. The digestive juices, enzymes, and saliva in the vomit begin to break down and dissolve the food. The fly can then suck up the liquid food with its sponge-like mouth parts and its proboscis. Yum!

KELLOGG’S

William Keith Kellogg was born on April 7, 1860 in Battle Creek, Michigan. At 14, he quit school to work for his father as a traveling salesman. When he turned 18, he started working for his brother John. The brothers developed a method of rolling cooked cereal into flakes and toasting the flakes yielding a tasty and nutritious breakfast food. Will called this new breakfast food ‘Kellogg’s Corn Flakes’.

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