Loved by consumers the world over for nearly a 100 years, Oreo is a sandwich biscuit with the delicious combination of dark chocolate cookie and smooth vanilla cream. It is an iconic product of the Kraft Foods Group and was first introduced in 1912. Today it stands the world’s No. 1 biscuit, with more Oreos being enjoyed every day than any other biscuit. But Oreo is more than just a biscuit. It makes families come together. Children across the world teach their parents the fun way to eat an Oreo - twisting it open, licking the cream, and then dunking it in milk. It’s no wonder then that people come together over this tasty snack

Oreo Facts

There's a lot of exciting stuff about Oreo you may not know yet. Here's a list of them to surprise your friends with. The design on every Oreo biscuit consists of 12 flowers, 12 dots and 12 dashes per side. Because everybody twists, licks and dunks their Oreos, somebody actually invented a Oreo Biscuit Dunker, designed to keep your fingers from getting wet when you dunk your biscuit into the glass of milk. The first Oreo biscuit was sold in 1912. If every Oreo Biscuit ever made were stacked on top of each other, the pile would reach to the moon and back more than five times. 50% of Oreo biscuit eaters twist their biscuit apart before eating it, with women twisting them open more often than men. If all the Oreo biscuits ever made were placed side-by-side, they would encircle the earth 381 times at the equator. The cream filling used in Oreo biscuits in one year could ice all the wedding cakes served in the United States for two years! That's 4,724,000 three-tier wedding cakes. Oreo is sold in over a 100 countries and is the best-selling biscuit of the 21st century. Approximately 25 billion Oreos are eaten per year. (That’s about 70 million per day, or 800 per second!)