BBC2 decided to send TV (and real) scientist Professor Alice Roberts on a stat filled trip around Britain to look at the nation’s favourite foods.

It was like a wall of nutritional knowledge sweeping into our front rooms, and the good people of Twitter struggled to fathom it.

1. Britain’s favourite “vegetables”.

And it wasn’t just the definition of vegetable that got people irate… Some absolute classics were missed off the list!

2. Mushrooms are basically magical beings that can harvest the sun.

Which is why we should (but probably not why we do) spend this much on them:

3. There’s stuff in carrots and peppers that can actually make you more attractive.

4. Buying salad for lunch is going to send you to a morbidly obese grave!

In fact Dr Alice told us: “Some pots of dressing can have as many calories as two scoops of ice cream.”

5. Who knew where all the nation’s salt intake really came from?

Apparently one slice of a particularly salty brand of bread can equal the salt contents of a small packet of crisps.

6. This stat:

That’s 3 billion litres between us.

7. Then this PR windfall for the dairy industry happened.

8. And another – cheese is apparently great for weight loss.

You can guess people’s reaction to that one.

Although cheese-haters gonna hate.

9. On to the fruit, and we had another fun “guess the favourite” style run-down. Apples won, and BBC2 had only one way to express their joy.

10. But what is a fruit? Back to the definition pedants.

11. Was Alice Roberts’ favourite apple a good choice?

12. The amount of meat we eat staggered many.

13. As did our ready meal habits.

Which were explained, as we’ve come to expect, in terms of famous landmarks.

After an hour of little-known nutritional nuggets, the citizens of social media didn’t know what to believe. But why were we struggling to take all this on board? Some had a theory…

Ah, we knew we’d heard it somewhere!