Coffee Facts To Impress Your Friends With

For a bit of fun and light reading, I've put together a little list of coffee related facts for you...

A Cup Of Coffee A Day...: It's commonly said than an apple a day keeps the doctor away, and you can say the same about coffee too. The antioxidants in it boost your immune system and it's also been linked with lowering the risk of cancer.

Aphrodisiac: After drinking a cup of coffee, you instantly feel in a better mood, and for lots of people there's a definite increase in their feelings of romance. It's partly due to the actual the ingredients in the coffee, and partly due to the aroma and feelings of warmth and comfort that it invokes.

Pain Relief: Moderate doses of caffeine have been said to help reduce muscle pain after working out. Runners are known to drink coffee, but now weight lifters have a reason to drink up too.

In Demand: Only oil is traded more often than coffee - pretty impressive, right? That's testament to the fact that coffee is popular literally all over the world. People in Africa and Asia may drink their coffee differently to people in the US and Europe, but they love it just as much, and drink it just as often.

The Decaf Myth: All coffee has caffeine in it, even decaf coffee. The truth is that it's impossible for coffee producers to totally take out all traces of caffeine. Decaf coffee definitely contains less caffeine than regular coffee though - approximately 70-90% less.

Cheaper Can Be Better: Time and time again in blind tasting tests, cheaper brands of coffee out perform the expensive ones. So, don't be fooled by the marketing people into thinking that you have to spend a small fortune if you want to taste 'real' coffee.

Cancer & Capricorn: Coffee is grown in lots of different countries, and across a few continents. What each of these places has in common though is that they are nearly all located between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

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