
Some Interesting Coffee Facts
- Coffee is the world’s second most valuable traded commodity, only behind petroleum.
- People on our green earth consume 2.2 billion cups of coffee EVERY DAY!
- Coffee beans aren’t beans. They are berries.
- By drinking coffee, it will increase a person’s blood flow.
- It is believed that coffee was discovered by a goat herder
- “Wine of the bean” is the Arabic word for coffee.
- The cappuccino was named after Capuchin friars because its color resembles the Capuchin robe..
- Brazil is the world’s largest producer of coffee for over 150 years.
- Nearly half of the caffeine a person consumes could be cleared out from their body within 5 hours. But it takes about 24 hours for the body to completely eliminate it.
- It has been discovered that coffee can reverse liver damage caused by excessive alcohol drinking.
Bonus fact!
In Italian espresso means “when something is forced out.”