Interesting facts about coffee that you probably didn’t know.
Strong and hot as a kiss, as sweet as love and black as the night coffee. About him are legends, arguing about its impact, invent new recipes and even worship the wonderful properties of this drink. Its noble taste and invigorating smell of magic is an important part of the beginning of a new day, part of a kind of ritual which creates a special atmosphere. But what do we know about this invigorating black drink? What are the secrets and the mysterious properties hidden in its black depths.
Every year people from all over the world drink 500 billion cups of coffee! And this is about 70 cups in one year. Over the last 3 centuries, 90% of the population of Western countries have switched from tea to coffee. The industry of manufacture of an invigorating drink provides the livelihood for over 25 million people. Today, coffee along with oil is the most purchased goods. It is also interesting that 58% of coffee is drunk during Breakfast hours, 30 % between meals, and the remaining 12% at tea time, or dinner.
In the Russian Empire coffee appeared as a beverage and not as a fashion innovation. His nobility was prescribed as a medicine. Mysterious black drink was designed to deal with such ailments as colds and dizziness. In the East the coffee decoction treated eye diseases, scurvy and gout. In our time, scientists at Harvard proved that people who drink 2 or more cups of coffee a day are 65% less prone to suicide, hypertension and diabetes, securely hedged against the occurrence of Parkinson’s disease. At the same time coffee should be careful, as you know, any medicine in large doses is a poison. This beverage psychoactive. At high doses can cause hallucinations, and kill. In addition, the caffeine in the list of forbidden substances by the International Committee. Athletes which are more than 12 mg of caffeine, can be removed from the Olympic Games. And this level is achieved after drinking 5 cups of coffee.
In the Ottoman Empire of the 16th century among the main responsibilities of every decent husband was to provide wife every day with a Cup of coffee. Respectable Turkish man was not only an appropriate way to make a living, but to be able to cook a delicious refreshing drink. A woman whose husband shirked the “coffee service”, it had every right to file for divorce – and the judge has satisfied the request.
Black, sweet, fragrant, intriguing, tart, well, how can he not inspire a greater… in history There are vivid examples of the “coffee geniuses”. Balzac drank more than 60 cups of coffee every day. Voltaire, according to the memoirs of contemporaries, drank 50 cups a day. Beethoven drank coffee in such large quantities, but was madly in love with a very strong drink. And Sebastian Bach has even written an Opera about a woman with a passion for coffee.
A real hit in modern SPA centers. Specially prepared coffee mass is heated to 50-60 degrees. In a tub you need to spend 15-20 minutes and you will be cheerful and energetic, no matter how tired or sleepy were not before the procedure.
“Coffee in bed” – not just a tradition, characteristic pleasant impressions and romantic in the morning. It turns out that caffeine promotes arousal, increases libido. Coffee lovers have an added incentive to sensual pleasures! It is proved that they have more love and receive more acute emotions.
Not so long ago in Naples was the trial of coffee. Pharmacists accused invigorating drink that coffee breaks reduces productivity. In response, the Italian jurists with the help of experts proved that coffee is perfectly tones, improves brain processes, and actively stimulates the nervous system. Thus, a coffee discharge of prohibited categorized as recommended.
