Coffee: 10 things you didn’t know about the caffeine-rich drink

1. According to legend, coffee was discovered in Ethiopia around 800AD through its effect on goats.

2. In terms of financial value, the two most traded commodities in the world are oil and coffee.

 3. The world’s most expensive coffee is Sumatran Kopi Luwak, made from beans eaten and excreted by a civet cat before being processed.

4. The standard unit for measuring coffee volume is the “bag” which is equal to 60kg of coffee beans.

5. Brazil led the world coffee export league during 2016 with a total of 55 million bags, while second placed Vietnam exported around 25 million bags.

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6. According to a recent survey, 61 per cent of Britons now prefer coffee to tea.

7. Robert Dahl of Germany has the world’s largest collection of coffee pots, 27,390 at the last count. 

8. JS Bach’s “Coffee Cantata” is a sort of comic mini-opera praising coffee.

9. Decaffeinated coffee contains 2-12 milligrams of coffee per cup. Regular coffee has 95-200mg.

10. Viennese coffee brand Julius Meinl celebrate International Coffee Day with a Meet With A Poem campaign, in the belief that poetry and coffee are the best ways to improve a relationship.

For details see www.meinlcoffee.com.


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