Interesting Facts About Coffee

Every one likes coffee and also coffee become regular part of our daily life, coffee has not been given much thought except for people wondering every now and then about the health benefits that it has on them. But most of us don’t know about coffee so now I am going to give some information about coffee.

Coffee is: • The second the majority widely used product in the world the first one is oil. • And the second most well-liked drink next to water. • developed in 65 countries around the globe • The means of living for 25 million families around the world • Consumed at the rate of 1.4 million cups every day • Coffee was first discovered by a young goat herd in the highlands of Ethiopia in the ninth century. • Coffee was originally used by the Arabs as a form of medicine and for religious purposes • Coffee was forbidden in Rome when a priest banned the people to drink the beverage because it was believed to be the drink of the devil • Coffee was first commercially harvested in the fourteenth century from the Arabian Peninsula. • Coffee was first imported on a large scale by the Dutch • Coffee was first bulk-produced by George Constant Washington, an English chemist in 1906 • Coffee was first known as "Arabian wine" when it was introduced in Europe. • Coffee farmers get a mere 4 cents for every pound of coffee that they pick by hand. • Coffee beans are actually berries, which contain two beans known as "pips". • Is celebrated in Japan every first of October, which they have officially marked as Coffee Day for the entire country. • With flavor originated in the 1970s in America. • Ships are used to transport beans around the world (approximately 2,500 ships every year) • Plants can create coffee beans up to 30 years under proper care and good conditions • The "coffee belt" refers to the regions in the equator where most coffee trees are grown. • The first coffee berries were boiled before they were marketed because the Arabs did not want the plants cultivated outside their territories • The first coffee houses were called "penny universities" as every cup of coffee would only cost you a penny • The first coffee-serving café (Le Procope) opened in Paris in 1968 and is still in business today • The first instant coffee was invented by Satori Kato, a Japanese-American chemist in 1901 • The first freeze-dried coffee Nescafe was invented by a Nestlé company in Switzerland in 1938. • The first coffee filter was invented by a housewife from Germany, Melitta Bentz