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Coffee is the most popular drink worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
It takes 42 coffee beans to make an espresso.
On average, men drink more coffee; 1.7 cups per day than women who drinks 1.5 cups |
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37% of coffee drinkers drink their coffee black; while 63% add a sweetener such as sugar.
Instant coffee accounts for 13% of all coffee drunk.
57% of coffee is drunk at breakfast; 34% between meals and 13% at other meals.
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Originally, coffee beans were used as a food and not as a beverage. East African tribes would grind the coffee cherries together, mix it into a paste with animal fat, then roll it into little balls. The mixture was said to give warriors much-needed energy for battle.
Around the year 1000 AD, Ethiopians concocted a type of wine from coffee berries, fermenting the dried beans in water. According to Dr. Bruce Ames, University of California at Berkeley, there are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats. Dr. Bruce Ames, UC Berkeley, in Smithsonian Magazine 12/95 |
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It is in the droppings of a type of marsupial that eats only the very best coffee beans. Plantation workers track them and scoop their precious poop.
According to the National Safety Council, coffee is not successful at sobering up a drunk person, and in many cases it may actually increase the adverse effects of alcohol.
The darker the coffee bean, then the less caffeine. The longer the bean is roasted, the more the caffeine gets cooked away.
A cup of drip brewed coffee has 115 mg of caffeine, an espresso has about 80 mg, instant coffee has about 65 mg, and decaffeinated coffee has about 3 mg.
With more than 25 million people employed in the industry, coffee is second only to oil in world trade
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines
A survey of Americans showed that coffee was the most memorable smell followed by peanut butter and Vick's Vaporub.
The word "tip" is also related to coffee. It comes from old London coffeehouses where the waiters' brass boxes were etched with the inscription, "To Insure Promptness." |
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European countries rated for their coffee consumption per capita (in kgs) in 1997: 1 Finland 12.82 2 Denmark 12.33 3 Sweden 11.90 4 Holland 10.20 5 Belgium 9.67 6 Norway 9.67 7 Switzerland 9.36 8 Germany 7.32 9 Austria 6.41 10 France 5.75 11 Italy 4.80 12 Hungary 2.20 13 Greece 2.12 14 Spain 1.86 15 England 1.76 16 Portugal 1.37 17 Iceland 1.00 |
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Links to good web-pages: National Geographics Coffe Special
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Wild medical contraptions used to exist to administer a mixture of coffee and an assortment of heated butter, honey and oil to treat the sick.
Regular coffee drinkers have about 1/3 less asthma symptoms than those of non-coffee drinkers according to a Harvard researcher who studied 20,000 people.
Australians consume 60% more coffee than tea, a sixfold increase since 1940.
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The Europeans first added chocolate to their coffee in the 1600's.
Our sense of smell, more than any of our other senses makes our final judgment on coffee.
With alcohol forbidden by the Koran in the early 1400's coffee soon became the replacement drink.
Decaffeinated coffee sales are at their highest in January due to people's New Year resolutions. |
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Bach wrote a coffee cantata in 1732
The US Navy used to serve alcoholic beverages on board ships. However when Admiral Josephus "Joe" Daniels became Chief of Naval Operations, he outlawed alcohol on board ships, except for very special occasions. Coffee then became the drink of choice, hence the term "Cup of Joe".
The heavy tax on tea imposed in 1773 on the colonies that resulted in the "Boston Tea Party" resulted in America switching from mainly drinking tea to coffee. To drink coffee was an expression of freedom.
Italians do not drink espresso during meals. It is considered to be a separate event and is given its own time.
In Greece and Turkey, the oldest person is almost always served their coffee first. |
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