Next time you’re enjoying a cup of java with your friends, be sure to drop some of this coffee knowledge on them. It’s interesting and impressive!
- Coffee is actually picked off trees in the forms of red berries. Inside the berries lie the beans, usually 2, called pips.
- Coffee is the second most popular drink in the world; water is the first.
- Coffee is the second most widely traded commodity in the world; oil is the first.
- The majority of coffee growers only earn 4 cents for every pound they harvest.
- Worldwide there are more than 1400 million cups of coffee consumed every day.
- 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.
- Dark roasts have less caffeine than light roasts. A large part of the caffeine is burned off during longer roasting times.
- Coffee increases the effectiveness of painkillers.
- It takes about 40 coffee beans to make a cup of espresso.
- Black Coffee has zero calories and no sugar.
Pretty good stuff…eh?
