A few interesting facts about coffee:


  • Coffee drinking originated in East Africa. Arabs who had visited Africa and then brought the custom back home popularized it in the 15th century.
  • Coffee beans actually grow on trees (well, inside fruit that grows on trees).
  • It's estimated that the average adult in the United States consumes about 200 mg. of caffeine daily (roughly two cups of coffee).
  • The word "cappuccino" is derived from "Capuchin," a sect of Italian monks who wore hoods colored brown and white.
  • In 18th-century British coffeehouses, boiled coffee was often laced with eggs, mustard, and an assortment of other tasty treats in a desperate attempt to add flavor.
  • With the exception of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, no coffee is grown in the United States or its territories.
  • There are just two main types of coffee beans — arabica and robusta. Aribica are the high-end, fragrant, and flavorful beans you'll find at gourmet coffee shops. Robusta are the cheap, inferior beans you'll find in canned coffee at the supermarket.
  • Coffee beans are roasted because the carbohydrates in green coffee beans need to be heated to develop flavors. Roasting has proven to be the most effective method for achieving this.
  • Colloids, microscopic particles in coffee that are too big to fully dissolve, are what give coffee its texture.
  • Each year some 7 million tons of green beans (coffee beans before roasted) are produced world wide. Most of which is hand picked.
  • 57% of all coffee is consumed at breakfast.

 

 
   
 
   

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