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Facts About Coffee

By: Roberts When coffee beans are roasted, a condenser gathers all the chemicals that contain the aroma that we all know and love. It is this aroma that is then used to produce coffee oil. After the chemicals are taken-out the rest of coffee bean ground into a powder. Sucrose and yeast are then added to the powdered coffee and this mixture is fermented at around 22 Celsius. The whole fermentation process takes about 4 hours, from start to finish.

Depending on where the coffee beans are grown and under what kind of conditions, determines the taste, amount of caffeine, smell. There are two types of coffee beans that are most commonly used: Arabica and Robusta.

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 originated in Ethiopia, which is in East Africa. Almost 60% of all export trade in Ethiopia is coffee. After petroleum, coffee is the most exported item in the world.

Here are a few facts about coffee:

*To reach full maturity, a coffee tree takes 5 years

*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.

*George Washington was a Belgian man, who lived in Guatemala, then immigrated to America invented the first instant coffee in 1906