Coffee is my favorite beverage and I am sure many of you would like to say the same. There are various interesting facts about this wonderful drink which I have come to know recently. I want to share these facts with my readers, as I find them really exciting and these must be known by a true coffee enthusiast.

There are more or less 65 nations across the globe which are involved in cultivating coffee plants. The amazing thing is, most of these nations are located in the equatorial regions, a few bordering the tropics. Te United States of America, the largest consumer of coffee, has no cultivation plots for this beverage, except a few tracts in the islands of Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Another fact can be logically deduced from this fact – the US is the largest importer of coffee. At this context, there is information that is roughly 30% American coffee drinkers prefer to have some sort of sweetener with their coffee.

The first day in the month of October is celebrated as the ‘coffee day’ by the Japanese people. Till date, the scientists and the researchers have found out a whopping 800 various types of aromatic coffee compounds. Among all types of commodities that are traded in between different nations, coffee ranks second in terms of essential products after oil. The country of Brazil is the largest producer of coffee in the world. The usage of coffee as a beverage dates back to more than 700 years. A Belgian citizen, by the name George Washington, is credited to be the inventor of the immensely popular instant coffee. The invention was made in the year 1906.

There are no calories in sugarless black coffee, and it is highly recommended by dieticians. The coffee industry is massive and in the world there are well over 20 millions labor forces who are involved in this industry. Having coffee with a 20 minute brewing time gives the body about 300 phytochemicals that are excellent anti-oxidants and can stay in a human body for well over a month.

A standard cup of coffee has a caffeine content that is almost double the amount that is contained in a cup of black tea and four times the caffeine quantity in one cup of green tea. In this regard, another fact is a cup of ordinary coffee has three times more caffeine content than a cup of espresso coffee.

There are other facts too, the most common being those related to the flavors of Arabica coffee and Robusta coffee. It is indeed true that Arabica is a much better coffee, but Robusta too has an identity of its own and the most important ingredient in the preparation of different coffee blends.

One single cup of the most expensive coffee can make you spend about 50 dollars in a decent restaurant! This coffee is said to be prepared by processing the excreta of the civets! So, for time being, happy coffee drinking!

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