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 United States except Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
3. • In 1675 Charles II, King of England issued a proclamation banning Coffee Houses. He said that they were places where people met to plot against him.
4. • 30% of coffee drinkers in US added a sweetener of some kind to their coffee, compared with 57% in UK.
5. • October 1st is official “Coffee Day” in Japan.
6. • Scientists have discovered more than 800 different aromatic compounds in coffee.
7. • Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world (oil is the first.)
8. • Brazil produces around 40% of the world’s coffee supply.
9. • A Belgian named George Washington invented instant coffee in 1906.
10. • Coffee has been used as a beverage for over 700 years.
11. • Black coffee with no sugar contains no calories.
12. • More than 20 million people worldwide, work in the coffee industry.
13. • There are two species of coffee plant: Arabica and Robusta.
14. • 75% of the world’s coffee comes from the Coffea Arabica plant.
15. • 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.
16. • In days gone by, Turkish bridegroom had to promise that they would always provide their new wives with coffee.
17. • Espresso Coffee has just one third of the caffeine content of ordinary coffee.
18. • Coffee beans are really berries. Each berry contains two beans (pips).
19. • An expert in preparing Turkish coffee is known as a “kahveci”.
20. • The Nicaraguan Margogpipe is the largest of all coffee beans.
21. • It takes 40 coffee beans to make an espresso.
22. • One coffee tree yields less than half a kilo of coffee per year.
23. • A coffee tree lives for between 60 and 70 years.
24. • Worldwide, more 1400 millions cups of coffee are drunk every day.
25. • Caffeine, which is found in coffee, increases the effect of some painkillers, especially aspirin and paracetamol.
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