Coffee Trivia

• Coffea robusta and coffea arabica are the two major commercially grown coffees in the World today.
• Coffee is grown within a thousand miles of the equator and the higher the altitude, the finer the quality.
• Robusta is grown in lower altitudes than Arabica and generally has twice the caffeine.
• Brazil is the largest coffee grower in the world supplying about one third of the total.
• Viet Nam is the second largest coffee grower on the planet. Colombia is the third.
• After oil, coffee is the second largest commodity in international trade.
• A coffee plant can range from a small shrub to a tall thirty foot tree.
• Commercial coffee trees can produce for twenty to thirty years if the proper conditions exist.
• A mature tree can produce about one pound of coffee per season.
• A pound of coffee is around 3500 beans. About 40 beans make a cup of espresso.
• Coffee was discovered in Ethiopia around the year 900.
• An Arabian secret for centuries, coffee made it to France around 1660, Italy-1645 and Britain-1650.
• Not native to North America, coffee started to become popular after the Boston Tea Party of 1773.
• Four hundred billion cups of coffee are consumed World-wide each year.
• The vacuum pack, making it possible to preserve roasted coffee, was invented in 1898.