Fivemiletown Creamery was established as far back as the 19th century as a small farmer owned cooperative in the Clogher valley and it remains a cooperative to this day.

When it was first invented coca-cola was green.

Last year, 2009, DUNBIA bought over a pork factory in Camlough Co. Armagh.

Ballyoak, Oakwood, and Cooneen are all brands of cheese produced at the Dunman Creamery (Dale Farm) plant in Cookstown.

It takes five litres of milk to make a 500gram block of cheddar cheese.

In November 2008, Marfrig, a Brazilian company bought up the Moy Park group in Europe making the company truly global.

Cookstown Meats (Grampian Country Pork) parent company VION is a German company.

Lettuce is the only fruit or vegetable that is never sold frozen, processed, canned, cooked or in any other form except fresh.

The letters CAFRE stand for the College for Animal Feed and Research Education based at Loughry, Cookstown.

The Food business Spices Nice, in Lisburn, which brings the flavours of the world together to create recipes for customer satisfaction is managed by a former Dungannon man.

Vanilla is the number one foodstuff flavour in the world.

Hilton Meats in Cookstown is part of the Kerry Food Group, and is a leading food processing company supplying meat to major retail and wholesale groups in UK/Europe.

The name of the parent company behind such local brands as Bushmills and Harp as well as international ones such as Smirnoff and Baileys is called DIAGEO.

Greenmount Campus in Antrim has been providing courses in Food for over 100 years.

Apples, onions and potatoes all have the same taste.