Coffee – What You Didn’t Know about Your Daily Dose of Caffeine
The drink dates back to 800 AD, and legend says that herders noticed the effect caffeine had on their goats. After eating the fruit, goats appeared to dance, and then a local monk made a drink out of it
Most people nowadays start their day with a cup of
coffee. It is one of the most popular drinks in the world. And in fact, it is
the second most traded commodity in the world. But despite drinking a cup of coffee
on a daily basis, a lot of people don’t know much about their favorite drink.
So, today, we will reveal some interesting facts about the pour without
thinking drink.
The drink dates back to 800 AD, and legend says that
herders noticed the effect caffeine had on their goats. After eating the fruit,
goats appeared to dance, and then a local monk made a drink out of it. He found
it that the drink kept him awake at night, and that is how the coffee was born
Coffee beans are actually seeds, and the cherries are
fruit. Yes, coffee beans are actually cherry-like berries found on the
flowering shrubs. We still call them beans, because the coffee beans resemble
to legumes. Early on, coffee beans were actually consumed as fruit, in a way to
get extra energy
You probably know it, but Brazil grows the most coffee
in the world. The country produces two times more than the country in the
second place, which is Vietnam
In the United States, only two states produce coffee.
That means that most of what you drink on a daily basis is imported. Hawaii was
the lone state that produced coffee for many years, thanks to its optimal
weather for harvesting beans. Lately, California also started growing coffee
In Italian, espresso actually means “pressed out”,
which refers to the way espresso is made. That is, forcing boiling water through
pressed coffee grounds
Coffee overdose is a thing, but you can rarely get
overdose on coffee. In theory, it is possible, but you have to drink more than
30 cups of coffee in a very short period of time to get a lethal dose of
caffeine
Finland is the home to the biggest coffee lovers, with
the average person in Finland consuming 27.5 pounds of coffee per year
The largest cup of coffee ever measured and filled was
a 9-foot tall cup, and in 2012, the 3,487 gallon serving entered the Guinness
Book of World Records
In America, coffee was popularized thanks to the Boston
Tea Party. This event lead up to the Revolutionary War, and it became patriotic
to drink coffee. During the Civil War, coffee gained reputation as a drink that
helped energize tired troops
If you think decaf coffee contains no caffeine, you are
wrong. You are only drinking a coffee with less caffeine. One cup of decaf
coffee contains two to 12mg of caffeine. In comparison, regular cup of coffee
contains 95 to 200mg of caffeine
As mentioned previously, coffee is the world’s second
largest traded commodity, with crude oil being the first. The coffee market is
worth more than $100 billion worldwide
In 1932, Brazil couldn’t afford to send its athletes to
the Olympics. What the country did was load them in a ship full of coffee which
was sold on the way to finance the trip
Beethoven is one of the most avid coffee lovers ever.
He counted 60 beans per cup before making his brew
