lundi 20 janvier 2014

Coffee: Four Facts You Might Not Know About

By Debrah Elliot


How can coffee be not popular when records will show that there are about 400 billion cups of coffee being drunk yearly worldwide? It has been one of the highly preferred drinks on the planet - from 1475 when the first coffee house was opened in then Constantinople (now, Istanbul) up to this very day when coffee shops worldwide seem to in every corner of every street. If coffee interests you, here are a few more facts you may want to know as well.

Historically, the story about its discovery was caused by some Ethiopian farmers' curiosity. Having found goats eating some berries and noticing that they seem to be with more energy than the usual, the farmers then tried the berries themselves. This gave birth to "coffee-eating" throughout Africa. Tribesmen mixed the berries with fat and consumed the mixture as they did with their regular food in the hope of having a much higher energy level.

It is rather common for us to believe that caffeine's purpose is merely to give one that extra energy but this is not its only purpose and there is a reason why caffeine is an important part of a coffee plant. The truth is that caffeine helps in the pollination process of the coffee plant by attracting bees that are agents of pollination and love the caffeine. Also, slugs and other animals intending to harm the coffee plant stay away from these plants because caffeine is a toxin to them. This is how caffeine is also able to give protection to the plant.

Say you are rather conscious about what goes into your body especially when it concerns calories, coffee should not give you much worry as it almost has none except for a minimal amount of fat. You will find that only half a percent of fat is in existence in your cup of regular filtered brewed coffee. In the case of your espresso though, it may contain about 2.5% of fat, but this is still a small amount.

Many notable people love coffee to the extreme. For instance, Theodore Roosevelt consumed coffee amounting to a gallon a day. Another bit of trivia is that the French writer, Voltaire also drank coffee at an average of 50 cups in a day. Don't think that this is being recommended though as it is not, being that it is rather dangerous and even perhaps psychoactive. Understand that really high amounts of caffeine ingested might be highly lethal as well. Death may come to anyone who intends to consume a hundred cups of caffeine which is why it is not recommended. Positive point though - that coffee when taken in safe amounts can give you health benefits because of the antioxidants.

Should you be anywhere within Los Angeles, you will find that the best cups of coffee are being offered at Island Monarch Coffee - Culver City's pride. Gourmet beans which are guaranteed roasted only when the imported shipment arrives at Los Angeles comes as their biggest advantage over other coffee houses. They import coffee beans from Kona, Hawaii and South America. Try placing an order and you will find that it is only then that they grind the beans, ensuring that all the coffee drinks at this Culver City coffee house are as fresh as possible.




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