Did you know:
- Coffee is the number one selling commodity, second only petroleum products
- The energy producing effect of coffee is best felt, when consuming it between the hours of 9:30 and 11:30 in the morning.
- Did you know that 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed around the world every day?
- The first webcam was created to check the status of a coffee pot I Cambridge.
- Coffee beans, are not really beans, they are actually fruit pits.
- Instant coffee was invented by a man named George Washington around the year 1910
- Coffee doesn’t always taste like it smells, because saliva wipes out much of the flavor.
- Drinking a cup of coffee, greatly improves blood flow.
- A coffee shop in France charges more for a cup of coffee in you do not say “hello” and “please”.
- New Yorkers drink seven times more coffee, than people in other cities.
- 54% of Americans, drink coffee every day.
- The word “coffee” comes from the Arabic word meaning “wine of the bean”.
- Netherlands is the world’s largest per capita consumer of coffee, averaging 2.4 cups of coffee per person per day.
- To study the health effects of coffee, King Gustav III of Sweden commuted the death sentences of a pair of twins on the condition that one drank 3 pots of coffee and the other tea for the rest of their lives.
- The name “Cappuccino” comes from the color resemblance of the drink, to the clothing of the Capuchin Monks.
- Americans spend an average of $1,092 on coffee each year.
- Drinking caffeine in the evening delays our brains release of melatonin, and interrupts our circadian rhythm by as much as 40 minutes.
- Contrary to popular belief, studies have shown that coffee does not dehydrate you.
- Brazil has been the largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years.
- 50% of the caffeine you consume is cleared from your body within five hours. However the rest of it takes approximately a full day to be eliminated from your system.
- Two cups of coffee a day, has been shown to reduce the risk of alcohol related cirrhosis by 43%.
- It takes about 37 gallons of water to grow the coffee beans and process them to make one cup of coffee.
- Coffee has been shown to reverse the liver damage caused by alcohol.
- Drinking 2-4 cups of coffee per day, has been shown to drop the risk of suicide, compared to non-coffee drinkers.
- At one point during the 17th Century Ottoman Empire, history shows that drinking coffee was punishable by death.
- Did you know, that before the “Columbian Exchange”, there were no oranges in Florida, no bananas in Ecuador, no pineapples in Hawaii, no rubber trees in Africa, no tomatoes in Italy, no chocolate in Switzerland, and YES, no coffee in Columbia.
- A study found that men who drink six or more cups of coffee per day, reduce their risk of prostate cancer by 20%.
- 25 million small producers rely of coffee for a living world-wide.
- Espresso more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee beverages, but because the usual serving size is much smaller, the total caffeine content is less than a mug of standard brewed coffee.
- According to a study, coffee improves the reaction time of older adults.
Resources:
1- Coffee Facts - https://www.factslides.com/s-Coffee Retrieved: 22 Nov 2018
