Tourists eat 100,000 full English breakfasts a week in Lanzarotte at the height of the season. (Channel 5)

Up to the 16th century breakfast consisted of bread, salted fish and ale.

The UK drinks 165 million cups of tea a day – 62 billion cups a year.

It is almost certain that coffee was first drunk in Ethiopia around 575AD

Queen Victoria introduced kippers to the English breakfast table in 1842

The ‘full Monty’ as referred to as a grand breakfast, comes from Field Marshall Montgomery, who insisted on having the full Monty for breakfast before going into battle.

More than half the worlds grapefruit production end up as juice

Desayuno is Spanish for breakfast - just drop that into this morning's conversation.

Breakfast eaters have better daily intakes of vitamins B1, B2, B3, vitamin C & D and the minerals iron & calcium.

All bread is good for you, whether white, brown or wholemeal and it is not fattening

Tabasco sauce first sold in the 1870’s rates 9 on the heat scale. 10 is the maximum. It is made from only vinegar and chillies.

Marmalade was originally made by the Romans from quinces.

The name grapefruit derives from the fact that they grow in big clusters and look like huge bunches of grapes.

Average consumption is 3 cups per day for those aged 10 and over.

1.5 billion cups of tea are enjoyed throughout the world every day.

There are currently more than 200 varieties of bread available in the UK.

Beaujolais Nouveau breakfast is served early in the morning on the third Thursday in November when the new wine arrives in the UK.

Churchill claimed that Reid’s hotel on Madeira served the best breakfast in the world.

“And now let us think about breakfast” said the greedy Queen 9 O’CLOCK CAME AND THEY WERE ALL IN THE BREAKFAST ROOM. “NO BUSINESS BEFORE BREAKFAST” SAYS THE KING. “BREAKFAST FIRST, BUSINESS NEXT.”

A study of 19,000 Americans called NHANES III found breakfast skippers are more likely to gain weight because they are more inclined to overcompensate for the loss of key nutrients at breakfast by eating more fat-rich, high-energy foods later in the day.

Breakfast was first mentioned in literature in 1542 by Andrew Boirde in 'A Compendyous Regyment of a Dyetary of Health'.

The record for the longest loaf is held by a bakery in Acapulco, Mexico. The 9,200 metre loaf was produced in January 1996

Marmite is made from yeast, one of the richest sources of 5 b vitamins

The German made Liebig meat extract was re-named Oxo in 1899 after a London docker chalked “oxo” on the side of a crate to distinguish it from other cargo. Last year 600 million cubes were sold.

Breakfast for a 2nd Century Roman would probably consist of bean meal mash and unleavened breadcakes.

The English claimed that the Scots morning bowl of porridge helped them win the battle of Bannockburn.

Tea was first introduced into Britain in 1650. The first tea used in England came from China, with the first Indian tea arriving in London in 1839.

One rule that naturists have to abide by is that they must be ‘dressed’ for breakfast.

Butter is a pure substance - simply cream and perhaps salt. No additives, colouring, preserves or emulsifiers.

In 2005 the number of 20-34 year olds drinking tea increased for the first time in 30 years.