Interesting facts about coffee

Coffee is the most used beverage in the world after the water. It is drunk by 85% of the Earth's population.
Every day, more than 2.5 billion cups of this wonderful drink are drunk.

Originally, coffee was known in Europe as "Arabian Wine".

According to a Harvard study of 20,000 people, regular drinkers 1/3 rarely experience symptoms of asthma compared to people who do not drink coffee.

In Africa, raw coffee beans are soaked in water with spices and then chewed like candy.

Men drink more coffee than women (1.7 glasses a day vs. 1.5 glasses for women).

In ancient Arab culture, a woman could divorce only one condition: if her husband did not provide her with enough coffee.

The coffee beans become yellow to orange and then to bright red, 6 - 8 months after their flowering.

The word coffee comes from Arabic.

The first coffee in Europe was sold in pharmacies in 1615 as a medicine.

For a better skin and wrinkle removal, the Japanese love to bathe in a mixture of coffee and pineapple.

October 1 is the official Cafe Day in Japan. It is the third country in the world to drink per capita.

One cup of sugar-free coffee has 0 calories.

Coffee as a drink is more than 700 years old.

In the medium toasted coffee beans, the most caffeine is found, and at least the more toasted. The more the beans are baked, the less caffeine they will contain.

From 100 kg of roasted coffee you get 30 to 34 kg of coffee.
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