They have in Turkey a drink called coffee… as Black as Soot, and of a Strong Scent… which they take, beaten into Powder, in Water, as Hot as they can Drink it; and they take it, and sit at it is their Coffee Houses, which are like our Taverns.
– Francis Bacon
Cuppa coffee
Photo by PH Morton
Scientist in the Netherlands found that a cup of coffee contains enough caffeine needed to combat the risk of nodding off on long haul journeys.
This means that drivers do not have to guzzle gallons of coffee on the motorway to keep awake and the even better news that the risk of toilet time-outs is minimised!!!
Brilliant news.
Did you know?
The caffeine in coffee is a stimulant. Contrary to past eras’ belief that caffeine in coffee renders a man impotent by depriving the body of semen, it has now been found out that sperms exposed to caffeine makes them friskier and thus swim faster. (Does this mean that a potential daddy who is biologically on the boil needs to consume copious cups of coffees before performing to get those sperms to go crazy?!!!) 😉
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Did you know? 40 per cent of coffee is produced in Columbia and Brazil.
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Did you know that the first coffee was made from boiling leaves (not sure whether it was the leaves from coffee bean tree, though)? It was an Islamic hermit named ad-Shadhili, who lived in 1200AD in North Africa that first had coffee made from the beans.
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Did you know, the name cappuccino comes from its resemblance to the clothing worn by the Capuchin monks.
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Did you know, coffee is the first food to be freeze dried.
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Did you know?
In Italian, the word espresso literally means “when something is forced out.”
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Did you know, there is a superstition in Brazil that putting the sugar first into your cup before the coffee will make you rich!
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Did you know? A cup of strong black, unsweetened coffee has the added benefit of cleaning your teeth. A study has found that coffee breaks down the bacteria that can cause tooth decay. Ensure not to cancel out the benefit of a strong black coffee to your molars by adding milk and sugar to your cuppa.
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Did you know that coffee contains more caffeine than any other drink.
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Did you know, that in Constantinople in Turkey, denying a wife her coffee gives her grounds for divorce.
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Did you know?
The most expensive coffee in the world which retail at $600 per pound is called Kopi Luwak, which are coffee beans that are swallowed and goes through the intestine and then excreted by the Sumatran wild cat.
Nice!
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Read more: http://www.rd.com/slideshows/10-weird-facts-about-coffee/#ixzz3KUFIUJ2X
There was an article at the BBC today about coffee being good for the heart. Apparently some tests were carried out amongst thousands of participants from Korea and that coffee has a property that cleans the arteries of fatty deposits such as calcium in the blood which means better for the body’s pumping machine! A few cups each day is good for you apparently according to Korean tests.
But the British Heart Foundation was quick to put a downer to the findings, so do not go overdosing and imbibing coffee just yet. Apparently what works with Koreans may not work with the west, this is a matter of differences in diet.