Things About Coffee

What do you know about coffee? Here is the many things that you may need to know about coffee:

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 world.
3. 30% of coffee drinkers in US added a sweetener of some kind to their coffee, compared with 57% in UK
4.  October 1st is official “Coffee Day” in Japan.
5. Scientists have discovered more than 800 different aromatic compounds in coffee.
6. Brazil produces around 40% of the world’s coffee supply.
7. There are two species of coffee plant: Arabica and Robusta. 75% of the world’s coffee comes from the Coffea Arabica plant.
8. Coffee has been used as a beverage for over 700 years.
9. Coffee beans are really berries. Each berry contains two beans (pips).
10. A coffee tree lives for between 60 and 70 years.
11. Caffeine, which is found in coffee, increases the effect of some painkillers, especially aspirin and paracetamol.
12. Kahvechi is the turkish terminology for person expert preparing Turkish Coffee.
13. 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.
14. Coffee is good to minimize the risk of prostate and breast cancer.
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