1. What’s in a name “Vita” means life. Vitamix was named because in 1937, founder William Grover Barnard saw the value of blending whole foods as part of a healthy diet. 2. Vitamix and Hollywood Vitamix machines have quite the credit list to their name. A few TV and movie appearances include Chef, This is Us (NBC), Blackish (ABC), Grace and Frankie (Netflix), The Ellen Degeneres Show, Hell’s Kitchen (Fox) and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 3. That’s a lot of blending! More than 6 million Vitamix blenders have been produced in the history of the company. 4. AS SEEN ON TV! Vitamix is credited with inventing the very first infomercial. At the time, TV was just coming in to American homes, and Bill Barnard, son of founder William Barnard, convinced his father that the new medium would be perfect to show families exactly what the machine could…