Interesting Facts About Coffee
Interesting Facts About Coffee
* Caffeinated coffee shows a beneficial effect on alertness and improves performance in a variety of tasks in both day and night sessions.
* Drinking coffee can reduce the muscle pain you feel after a workout.
* Some of the worlds most powerful business, including Lloyds of London and the New York Stock Exchange, started life as a coffee houses.
* The popularity of dark roasted coffee is high in Southern Europe.
* Coffee farmers earn as little as 4 cents per pound for coffee they pick by hand.
* A good coffee tree can produce up to 1 kg of raw coffee per year.
* 25 million families around the world work in the coffee fields and are completely dependent upon coffee as their only source of income.
* Monks used coffee to stay awake and concentrate on what they were doing.
* During roasting the coffee beans dry out and the sugars in the beans start to caramelise.
* A coffee tree can flower eight times in any one year – depending on rainfall.
* The quality of a cup of coffee does not depend on the blend only but also on the ratio of the amount of water and coffee used for brewing.
* For every pound of gourmet coffee sold, a coffee farmer may receive between 12 and 25 cents.
* The present coffee producing belt around the globe encompasses approximately 70 countries.
* The coffee cherries turn from yellow to orange and then bright red, 6 – 8 months after flowering.
* Coffee only grows in tropical and sub-tropical regions.
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