Little-known stories about coffee that will be of interest to you.
Every morning millions of people start their day with a Cup of strong coffee. Your attention is some interesting facts about the “black gold”, which can be found, slowly sipping this refreshing drink, writes the Chronicle.Info with reference for UBR.
1. Honore de Balzac loved coffee and drank more than 20 cups a day,convinced that this spur his inspiration. And Ludwig van Beethoven brewed coffee always from 64 coffee beans.
2. Rich Japanese sometimes arrange themselves coffee baths:poured warmed up to 60 degrees of grain and 20 minutes fatigue as a hand shoots. In Tokyo there is even a “Coffee – sauna” where in the pool, pour the coffee mass temperature of 40 degrees.
3. The optimum temperature for brewing coffee is 95-98 degrees. At lower temperatures, caffeine and saturated fatty acid is extracted sufficiently, but at higher temperatures sharply increases the acidity.
4. Caffeine have long been used runners on the long haul to enhance metabolism and burning excess fats. Organic acid included in the coffee, increase the stomach secretion and facilitate the speedy digestion of food.
5. Today caffeine has been successfully used in medicine and included more than twenty drugs that help restore some of the functions of the human body.
6. The homeland of coffee is the area of Kaffa, Ethiopia. The shepherds noticed that goats eating coffee Bush, be playful and lively. Coffee roasting also appeared randomly. When burning at the stake of the branches of the coffee tree, people found in the ashes of grain, chewing them or cooking a refreshing drink.
7. Coffee has gained immense popularity in the Arab world,as it invigorated and replaced the wine, which Muslims are forbidden to drink religion. Besides, the Arabs insisted that the coffee drinker, be sure to go to heaven. This kind of advertising worked flawlessly.
8. In some countries there is a festival dedicated to this drink. In Costa Rica, for example, “coffee Day” is celebrated on 12 September in Ireland, on September 19 and in Japan on October 1.
9. Coffee is the most traded product after oil. Every day around the world people drink 2.25 billion cups of coffee. 25 million people work in the coffee industry.
10. The largest Cup of coffee was submitted on 15 Oct 2010 in Las Vegas, USA. She was a volume 7,608 litres, which equals 32160 cups of the drink.
