COFFEE [FASCINATING FACTS]

• Coffee is said to have been discovered by a ninth-century Ethiopian farmer, who realized his goats were going crazy over coffee beans.

• Originally coffee was eaten. African tribes mixed coffee berries with fat which formed edible energy balls.

• All coffee in the world grows in the ‘coffee belt’ which is the area between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

• There are 25 species of coffee. Arabica and Robusto are the two main beans used commercially. Columbia and Brazil are the two biggest suppliers of beans worldwide.

• The Dutch drink more coffee than any other nation, an average of 2.414 cups each, every day. 

•  Coffee is the number two traded commodity in the world (oil is the no.1).

• Coffee is the most popular drink worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.

• The word Cappuccino comes from the resemblance of the drink to the clothing of the Capuchin monks.

• The world’s most expensive coffee is Kopi Luak, made from beans excreted by civet cats.

• George Washington, a Belgian man living in Guatemala, in 1906 invented instant coffee.