Fun Facts About Coffee

You either love coffee or hate it. Some people prefer tea. However, coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world. Oil is the first. Coffee plants can only grow in countries which don't have any frost in winter. That's why coffee is grown close to the equator, between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Only two varieties of coffee beans are cultivated, the Arabica and Robusta. Coffee has not always been a drink. When it was first discovered in Africa, people ground the coffee cherries (berries), added animal fat, and made balls of the mixture which they ate. These may have been the world's first energy snacks. After coffee has been decaffeinated, some coffee manufacturers sell the caffeine to pharmaceutical companies and companies that make soda. So not much is wasted. We've had instant coffee for around 250 years, although it wasn't mass- produced as it is now. It was first introduced in the UK in 1771. The first mass-produced instant coffee w...