Coffee - Myth or fact?
Coffee is the second most traded product in the world after petroleum... Click here
Coffee is the second most traded product in the world after petroleum... Click here
- The name coffee comes from the Arabic word “qahwah”, meaning wine FACT and not from the town of Kaffa, in Ethiopia (Abyssinia), as many writers have supposed MYTH
- Our knowledge of coffee is about 1000 years old FACT
- The espresso drink is only 100 years old FACT
- Coffee originated in Brazil MYTH
- Coffee grows in the wild in the Limu region of Ethiopia FACT
- Coffee derived it’s name from the town of Kaffa in Ethiopia MYTH
- Top grade Arabica coffee only yields 700kg to 1500kg per hectare FACT
- The average coffee drinker consumes 4-6kg of roasted coffee per annum; South Africans only consume 0.6kg per person per annum FACT
- It takes five years for a coffee tree to reach maturity. The average yield from one tree is the equivalent of 500g of roasted beans FACT
- Coffee is the second most traded product in the world after petroleum FACT
- Arabica beans contain half the caffeine of Robusta FACT
- Coffee is the earth’s biggest drink FACT