10 Facts You Never Knew About Coffee

The next time you visit Daisys and somebody catches your eye, here are ten exciting coffee facts that you can use to start a conversation:

1) Coffee is thought to be an aphrodisiac. Due to the fact that it contains a high dosage of caffeine and other different alkaloids, research studies have actually shown that coffee can increase stamina and the overall length of intimate sessions.


2) Although coffee has actually been a part of the Arab culture for thousands of years, it did not become part of the western world up until the 1500s. Prior to that time, priests thought that coffee was a drink of the devil. Pope Clement VIII finally ended this line of believing by taking a sip of coffee and after that giving it his blessing.

3) Japan’s national Coffee Day is October 1st.


4) An acre of coffee plants can produce close to ten thousand pounds of coffee beans. Once they are grated or hulled, there are still nearly two thousand pounds of coffee beans.


5) Forty-nine of the fifty American states grow absolutely no coffee. The only state that does grow coffee is Hawaii. Furthermore, the only United States territory that grows coffee is Puerto Rico.

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6) Germany is the second-largest coffee consumer in the world. Forty-three per cent of Germans add sweetener to their coffee, while just twenty-seven per cent of Americans (the number one consumer of coffee) use any sort of sweetener in their coffee.


7) The English word coffee is stemmed from the Latin word Coffea. Coffea is the Latin name for a genus of trees.

 

8) Every one of the fifty-three nations that grow coffee is located along the equator, in between the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn.


9) On average, individuals who buy their coffee from drive-through windows before work will spend around forty-five hours every year waiting in line for their coffee.

 

10) Petroleum is the only product that is traded more greatly than coffee. The quantity of coffee produced around the globe is close to 6 million metric tonnes.

Pop in to Daisys By The Park for your favourite brew today and impress your friends and the barista with all these new coffee facts!
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