Its Friday so here are some Fun Facts!
Just a few coffee tid-bits nothing too deep:
- Arabs were the first to cultivate coffee and the first to make a beverage from the roasted beans around 1300 AD.
Coffee was originally used by monks and “prescribed” medicinally. - Today coffee is grown in more than 70 countries – all in subtropical regions – and more people drink coffee than any other beverage except water and perhaps tea.
- The United States consumes more coffee – 300 million cups a day – than any other country as a whole, but other countries drink more per capita. The average citizens of Finland drinks about 2.64 cups of coffee a day, higher than any other nation.
- Workers who drank coffee rather than napping were more alert and performed better on the job, studies show.
I don’t know how accurate this is, but considering I can’t nap, I’m going to choose to believe it. 😀
- Most research shows that drinking coffee has a variety of health benefits and may be good for heart health.
- It takes about 5000 pounds of coffee cherries to produce 1,000 pounds of green coffee beans; the beans lose another 20 percent of their weight in the roasting.
- Coffee is a relative of the gardenia plant family and is thought to be indigenous to the African region which is now the country of Ethiopia.
The flower is also beautiful and smell similar to Jasmine!
- Coffee beans have up to 800 flavor characteristics that our senses can detect. Red wine, by comparison, only has 400. Most coffee connoisseurs prefer mild roasts because the longer a coffee bean is roasted, more characteristics are burned off.
- Espresso Coffee has just one third of the caffeine content of ordinary coffee.
This is why I always use medium roasted coffee for my lattes and cappuccinos. Okay the flavor is actually why, but hey, good to know right! - The process of roasting causes coffee beans to begin to release carbon dioxide. When you pour hot water over freshly roasted and ground coffee, as in a French press, you will get a foamy head like that from a dark beer.
- A coffee tree lives for between 60 and 70 years.
Long live the coffee bean!!!
The Coffee plant is one INCREDIBLE edible,
fragrantly delicious creation!
Legend:
There are ancient accounts that attribute the discovery of coffee to Sheikh Omar. According to the ancient chronicle (preserved in the Abd-Al-Kadir manuscript), Omar, who was known for his ability to cure the sick through prayer, was once exiled from Mocha, Yemen to a desert cave near Ousab. Starving, Omar chewed berries from nearby shrubbery, but found them to be bitter. He tried roasting the seeds to improve the flavor, but they became hard. He then tried boiling them to soften the seed, which resulted in a fragrant brown liquid. Upon drinking the liquid Omar was revitalized and sustained for days. As stories of this “miracle drug” reached Mocha, Omar was asked to return and was made a saint. From Ethiopia, the coffee plant was introduced into the Arab World through Egypt and Yemen.
Do you know any fun coffee facts?
I had no idea coffee was kin to the magnolia. Thanks for such a great article.
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I found that one out recently 🙂 now I want my own plant! 🙂
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Fun coffee fact – we Finns drink the most coffee in the world! 🙂
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Keep up the good work! 😀
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This post made me want coffee, great post!
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😀 Thank you.
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A personal fun fact…I love the sound of the coffee grinder and the aroma of those freshly ground beans first thing in the morning! ☕️
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It’s the best!
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My fb loves coffee, I’ll be sharing this 🙂 thanks!
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Reading this as I drink my orange pekoe tea (but I love coffee as well! 🙂 ). I recently went to a conference and learned that there’s a special way to make coffee where people taste-test the drink and then spit it out like you would with wine. I guess there’s coffee connoisseurs out there like wine connoisseurs. 😀 Really interesting post!
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They call it cupping. It’s becoming more and more of a common practice. I read on another blog recently about having cupping parties.
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Yes, that’s what it’s called–I had forgot the name 🙂 Sounds cool.
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Great topic! Gotta love that Omar was canonized for discovering coffee.
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That is awesome!!! So does this mean my favorite coffee Arabian Mocha Sanani is actually the world’s first coffee?! And now…I’m going to go make an aeropress 🙂
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You have good taste. 🙂
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I love that Finland stat — those Nordic countries are big coffee-drinkers. I remember noticing that in Iceland. (Good coffee, too.)
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It seems I need to travel there some day. 🙂
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“Upon drinking the liquid Omar was revitalized and sustained for days.” Days? If I discovered coffee I suppose I’d drink it by the gallon too.
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I wonder also if boiling the “whole” cherry is significantly higher in caffeine..? That may have contributed. Also us humans tend to exaggerate when we get excited about things. 🙂
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And Deathwish coffee is the best coffee ever
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I haven’t tried it yet.
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It’s a bit expensive… $20 a pound but it is totally worth the price. Pretty damn strong caffeine wise and very smooth taste! Everybody who tries it thoroughly enjoys the coffee.
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Well that’s better than $50 a pound 🙂
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You’re wise beyond your years LOL
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I’m sure you have mentioned this but I was actually surprised to find out that coffee beans are green before you roast them! Still, as I have mentioned before…… Liquid Silk. A great place here in Toronto is this place to check out for interesting coffee facts and some other bits as well…..
http://www.merchantsofgreencoffee.com/
Been there many times, very bohemian and awesome and always vinyl playing!
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If I am ever in Toronto I will most definitely check it out! 🙂
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There’s lots of great coffee houses or Das Kafeehaus lol to go to here!
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So then the more characteristics are burned off the more bitter/stronger the coffee?
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More bitter but not stronger, dark roasted beans actually tend to have less caffeine. However, depending on the bean the flavor could be better if dark roasted, it just depends on what compliments the particular bean flavor.
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I see! Interesting, thank you!
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I had read that it was an Ethiopian goat herder that first noticed the effect of coffee on his goats and tried it himself. So I learned something new!
Suvi, that doesn’t surprise me. My grandmother’s family (Finns with a few Swedes thrown in) drank gallons of it. I wasn’t allowed to have any – they said it would stunt my growth – but there were marvelous coffee cakes.
It occurs to me that in my childhood, it was common for adults to invite people over for coffee. I don’t think I’ve heard that expression “invite him/her over for coffee” in a very long time.
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The exact discover is not 100% known. That is so true, my mom invited people over for coffee when I was growing up, and now I never hear of it. I wonder if it is because of the boom in the cafe/coffee house industry… Now people say “let meet up for coffee.”
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I cannot add to yours
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Interesting! I’d never thought hard about it, but I didn’t know coffee beans grew on trees. I always imagined crops of coffee plants!
Also, although I’m not a coffee drinker, I’ve never been a good napper, preferring to drink tea and get back to work.
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Tea is also SO great. 🙂
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I want to grow my own coffee plant. I wonder if it weld be possible in the UK?
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You probably can, you might need a greenhouse though… I bet if you do a little research you’ll find a way.
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Ha haaa! I sense a lot of coffee-inspired reading on the horizon 🙂🙃☕️
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If you end up doing it, let me know how it goes! 😀
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Will do.
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Hey. We have a coffee plant that is about four feet tall in our lounge (here in New Zealand)…it flowered for the first time since we bout it two years ago recently and the flowers smelled amazing…the jasmine scent you mention is mixed with a strong citrus aroma (maybe orange).
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I am not much of a green thumb, but I really want to try and have a plant of my own!
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For your next meet-and-greet, set a Coffee books theme!
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Fun Fact- Coffee is good.
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Yes it is. 🙂
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