Coffeeology

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• Each year over 7 million tons of green beans are produced world wide, most of which are handpicked.

• It takes 5000 coffee beans to produce one kilogram of coffee. 

• It takes 42 coffee beans to make an espresso.

• The world downs over 1.4 billion cups of coffee every day.

• Coffee drinking Americans consume an average of over three cups a day. That adds up to about 150 billion cups per year.

• Europe consumes more coffee than any other part of the world.  World coffee consumption is 10.1lb/4.6kg per year per head as opposed to 12.3lb/5.6kg for the European Union.

• Coffee grows in more than 50 countries and is the second most valuable export after oil.

• Coffee is the most valuable, legally traded commodity in the world after oil. 

• The coffee industry is the world’s largest employer. Over 100 million people look to coffee for their livelihood. 

• Coffee is grown one thousand miles of our Earth's equator between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

• The Arabs were believed to be the first to brew coffee.

• Up to the 17th century coffee was regarded as a medicine rather than a foodstuff. It was praised for its value to the digestion.   

• Coffee contains four times the antioxidants of green tea.

• Coffee can improve performance in tests of reaction time, memory and spatial reason. Athletic performance and recovery time have also been shown to benefit from caffeine intake.

• Research has shown that regular coffee drinkers have about one third less asthma symptoms than non coffee drinkers.

• The Difference Between Arabica and Robusta

• The term “coffee break” was coined in 1952 by the Pan American Coffee Bureau in a series of ads featuring the slogan “Give yourself a coffee break and get what coffee gives to you!”

• In Dieppe, France it is customary to toast weddings and baptisms with coffee rather than wine.

• In Turkey, it is legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fails to provide her with her daily coffee fix.

• At the end of the 16th century, there were at least 500 cafes in Istanbul alone. The first European cafes were opened by immigrants from Asia around 1650.

• A coffee tree has a life span of about 50 years.

• There are 73 species of coffee tree, but only two are cultivated: Arabica and Canephora.  There are 200 varieties of Arabica and 50 of canephora, of which only 5 are grown commercially including robusta.

• Cappuccino got its name because its peak of foam resembled the hood of a Capuchin friar’s habit.

• In Greece and Turkey, the oldest person is almost always served their coffee first.

• The French philosopher Voltaire reportedly drank 50 cups of coffee a day.

• Decaffeinated coffee sales are highest in January due to people’s New Year’s resolutions.