fun facts about coffee

Either you love coffee or you hate it. Some people prefer tea. However, coffee is the second most traded product in the world. Oil is the first.

Coffee plants can only grow in countries that do not have frost in winter. That is why coffee is grown near the equator, between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

Only two varieties of coffee beans are grown, Arabica and Robusta.

Coffee has not always been a drink. When it was first discovered in Africa, people ground up coffee cherries (berries), added animal fat, and rolled the mixture into balls to eat. These may have been the world’s first energy snacks.

After the coffee has been decaffeinated, some coffee manufacturers sell the caffeine to pharmaceutical companies and companies that make soft drinks. So not much is wasted.

We’ve had instant coffee for about 250 years, although it wasn’t mass-produced like it is now. It was first introduced to the UK in 1771. The first mass-produced instant coffee was patented in the US at the turn of the 20th century, in 1910 to be precise.

Finns are the most prolific coffee drinkers in the world, not Americans as you might have thought!

Plans are afoot to make biodiesel from coffee grounds, so in the future, the coffee could power your car.

It is possible that if you give your cat liquid coffee every day, it could extend its life. Why do people think this? Well, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the oldest cat, named Creme Puff, drank coffee every morning. He also reportedly liked broccoli. and your breakfast eggs and bacon. He lived to be 38 years old. His owner also had another cat, Grandpa Rex Allen. It was this cat that previously held the world record for the oldest cat in the world. They had the same diet. Maybe it was the coffee that helped these two cats live so long.

In the 17th century, when men frequented coffeehouses, especially in London, women believed he was responsible for turning their husbands into corpses, rendering them useless. These women raised a petition against coffee proposing that no underage men drink it. The proposed ban obviously did not go into effect.

In fact, there have been other attempts to ban the drink, and it was banned in Sweden in 1746. Not only was the drink banned, but also coffee making equipment and this included coffee cups and saucers, not just the pots to make in .

Coffee has had a checkered history, but luckily it’s readily available.