True Or False: 7 Common Food Myths

Carrots make you see in the dark, skipping meals helps you lose weight, and apples clean your teeth are among the food tips people swear by in their daily lives, a survey has found. Despite many food facts being proven to be incorrect, 39% admit to living by the "recommendations."

The poll of 2,000 adults revealed a huge amount of confusion about the advice and old wives tales the nation follows with a third mistakenly believing that chewing gum really does take seven years to digest.

Sugar is a great source of energy, despite the boost it gives you often being followed by a drop in energy levels. Almost four in ten worry they don't always get the energy they need from the food they consume to get them through the day. And half of the population went as far as to say they sometimes feel they are running on empty.

One in five Brits also believe eggs are bad for you due to their high cholesterol levels, a ‘fact’ which has been debunked in recent years.

We were all told this as kids to encourage us to eat more vegetables but it turns out that there's no truth in this tale at all, it actually comes from some WWII propaganda. The Brits didn't wanted the Germans to know about their newly developed and high secretive radar technology so started a rumour that pilots were able to spot the Luftwaffe due to a diet of vitamin A rich carrots which help them see in the the dark.

A quarter of the population have been "shocked" to find out a piece of food advice they'd been following for years has turned out to be wrong. But swearing by tips and advice over the years they believed to be true has left some adults struggling with their diet.

But apples really can help clean your teeth, with the fibrous content of the fruit acting as a toothbrush, scrubbing plaque and food debris from the teeth.