Did You Know...? Coffee
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After the picking of the coffee beans, the first step is to roast the beans. While the beans are being roasted, the chemicals that store the coffee aromas are separated from the beans and are collected. These aromas will be used to make coffee oil at a later time. Once all the beans have been roasted, they are ground to a powder and mixed with raising agents and sucrose. The powder mix is then fermented for 4 hours at temperatures of 22 Celsius.
There are many different types of coffee beans, however the two most common are: Arabica and Robusta. Coffee beans taste and small different according to where they are grown. The amount of caffeine in the coffee also varies.
Many years of research and studies claims that coffee has great health benefits. Coffee beans contain a high source of chlorogenic acid (this is a type of antioxidant) a single cup of Arabica coffee contains between 70 and 200mg of Chlorogenic Acid and a cup of Robusta coffee contains between 70 and 350mg.
If you are a regular coffee drinker it's thought that you can get almost 70% of your recommended allowance of these antioxidants through coffee. You can get on average 500mg of cinnamates (caffeic acid) and 1g of cinnamate esters (chlorogenic acid) every day.
Coffee beans are the most exported product, after petroleum. In the East African country of Ethiopia - where coffee has its origins, around 60% of export is coffee.
Here are a few facts about coffee:
*A coffee tree takes almost 5 years to fully mature
*On average, around one pound in weight of coffee is produced by any one tree
*1683 saw the first coffee house in Europe. It was opened in Venice
*It was in 1608, coffee came to Europe. At first, only the rich were able to afford coffee.
*A coffee berry typically has two "beans". Berries that have three beans are believed to be good luck.
*A Belgian man by the name of George Washington, invented the instant coffee in 1906.
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