Every morning millions of people start their day with a cup of strong coffee. However, does everyone who drinks coffee know about this drink interesting facts?.
Honore de Balzac loved coffee and drank more than 20 cups a day. He was convinced that this spurred his inspiration. And Ludwig van Beethoven brewed coffee always from 64 grains of coffee.
The optimum temperature for cooking coffee is 95-98 degrees. At lower temperatures, caffeine and saturated fatty acids are not extracted sufficiently, and at higher temperatures acidity sharply increases.
Affluent Japanese sometimes arrange themselves coffee baths: they cover the heated to 60 degrees of grain and for 20 minutes fatigue as hand removes. In Tokyo, there is even a "Coffee-sauna" where a 40-degree coffee mass is poured into the pool.
Caffeine has long been used by runners for long distances to increase metabolism and burn excess fats. Organic acids that make up coffee, strengthen the secretion of the stomach and promote rapid digestion of food.
The homeland of coffee is Caffa, Ethiopia. The shepherds noticed that the goats that chew the coffee bushes become playful and animated. Roasting coffee also appeared by chance. When burning coffee trees on a fire, people found in the ashes of grain, chewed them or prepared an invigorating drink.
Today, caffeine is successfully used in medicine and is part of more than twenty drugs that help restore certain functions of the human body.
Coffee has gained immense popularity in the Arab countries, as he cheated and replaced the wine that Muslims forbade drinking religion. In addition, the Arabs assured that the one who drinks coffee, will certainly fall into paradise. Such advertising operated smoothly.
Coffee - the best-selling product after oil.
Every day the world consumes 2.25 billion cups of coffee. 25 million people work in the coffee industry.
In a number of countries there is a holiday dedicated to this drink. In Costa Rica, for example, "Coffee Day" is celebrated on September 12, in Ireland - on September 19, and in Japan - on October 1.
10. The biggest cup of coffee was presented on October 15, 2010 in Las Vegas, USA. It was a volume of 7608 liters, which equals 32160 ordinary cups.