Coffee Facts

By Brett Bolwell

• 1. 65 countries in the world grow coffee. They are all along the equator, within the tropics.
• 2. Coffee is not grown anywhere in the United States except Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
• 3. In 1675 Charles II, King of England issued a proclamation banning Coffee Houses. He said that they were places where people met to plot against him.
• 4. 30% of coffee drinkers in US added a sweetener of some kind to their coffee, compared with 57% in UK.
• 5. October 1st is official "Coffee Day" in Japan.
• 6. Scientists have discovered more than 800 different aromatic compounds in coffee.
• 7. Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world (oil is the first.)
• 8. Brazil produces around 40% of the world's coffee supply.
• 9. A Belgian named George Washington invented instant coffee in 1906.
• 10. Coffee has been used as a beverage for over 700 years.
• 11. Black coffee with no sugar contains no calories.
• 12. More than 20 million people worldwide, work in the coffee industry.
• 13. There are two species of coffee plant: Arabica and Robusta.
• 14. 75% of the world's coffee comes from the Coffee Arabica plant.
• 15. Drinking a single cup of coffee that has been brewing for 20 minutes provides the body with 300 phytochemicals which act as antioxidants and stay in the body for up to a month.
• 16. In days gone by, Turkish bridegroom had to promise that they would always provide their new wives with coffee.
• 17. Espresso Coffee has just one third of the caffeine content of ordinary coffee.
• 18. Coffee beans are really berries. Each berry contains two beans (pips).
• 19. An expert in preparing Turkish coffee is known as a "kahveci".
• 20. The Nicaraguan Margogpipe is the largest of all coffee beans.
• 21. It takes 40 coffee beans to make an espresso.
• 22. One coffee tree yields less than half a kilo of coffee per year.
• 23. A coffee tree lives for between 60 and 70 years.
• 24. Worldwide, more 1400 millions cups of coffee are drunk every day.
• 25. Caffeine, which is found in coffee, increases the effect of some painkillers, especially aspirin and paracetamol.

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