I don’t know if ou belong to the coffee clan, a clan that belives that coffee is the possible answer to everything. You need to talk to someone, invite them for a cup of coffee, if you can’t concentrate at work a cup of coffee will fix it, if you are cold a cup of coffee will give you all the heat you need, if you can’t get your ‘groove on’ just take two or three cups of coffee and the ‘pony ride’ will be pure heat, a cup of coffee treats a hang-over pretty well.
So there is alot of power that coffee holds; whether or not you are a coffee fanatic you’d be delighted to know some amazing facts about one of the most consumed beverage in the world or should I say the magical plant.
Here is what you need to know about coffee.
- Coffee is actually a seed. We call it a bean because its resemblance to beans.
- 10-15% of coffee cherries have a naturally occurring defect that allow only one seed to grow per cherry as opposed to two. This produces a smaller, rounder seed called a peaberry, rumored to taste better, the peaberry is hand sorted and could just be better selected.
- Caffeine occurs in coffee as a natural insect repellent! Generally higher grown coffee has less caffeine as it needs less protection against insects.
- A typical espresso has 60mg of caffeine, however, a South African coffee company, Black Insomnia coffee, holds the title as the world’s strongest coffee at 702mg per cup! Yikes!
- Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world, second only to Crude oil.
- Around 400 billion cups of coffee are served annually worldwide, that’s a lot of coffee!