MIND BLOWING FACTS ABOUT COFFEE

If you are a die heart fan of coffee or you just drink it occasionally, this article deserves your attention in either way. You will get to know some pretty interesting and mind-blowing facts about coffee which can turn into a topic of conversation over a cup of coffee.

1. Coffee is actually a fruit:
   Yes, you read it quite right; coffee beans are actually originated from cherries. The cherries go through a long process to get converted into beans which are then further roasted and brewed to get the coffee out of them.

2. Coffee is the second most traded commodity after oil:
   You should feel proud that on what you rely every morning is the world’s second most traded commodity after crude oil. You will also be amazed to know that just three countries: USA, France, and Germany consume the 65% of world’s coffee.

3. Coffee with cream cools slowly:
   The Modernist Cuisine discovered by making high-speed videos of coffee with cream that coffee with cream added on top cools about 20% more slowly than plain black coffee. That certainly means that you can immediately load up your coffee with cream.

4. There is a specific time when coffee is more effective:
   There is a hormone in our body known as cortisol which is at peak at different times of a day and the coffee should not be consumed when it is high. The best time to drink coffee is between 9:30 am to 11:30 am as the levels of hormone cortisol are dropped to a minimum. Now this time in the morning should be the time you grab a cup of coffee.
   According to Steven Miller, a neuroscientist from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Maryland, “it is best to drink coffee when the body’s levels of the hormone cortisol are low because caffeine interacts with the hormone”

5. Coffee can reverse liver damage caused by alcohol:
   There are several known health benefits of coffee and it is one of them. The coffee can help you decrease the liver damage by 44 percent.
   According to Dr. Oliver Kennedy of Southampton University in the UK, “it is significant that the risk of developing cirrhosis may be reduced by consumption of coffee, a cheap, ubiquitous and well-tolerated beverage.”

6. Coffee was discovered by an animal:
   It might sound weird but according to a legend, a shepherd named Kaldi discovered that his sheep feel energetic and can’t sleep at night after eating berries from a certain tree. He noticed it many days and conveyed the information to the local monastery, so they made a drink with those berries and found that the drink kept them alert through the long hours of evening prayers. Coffee has now spread to every part of the world and brewed in many ways for the best taste.
   In 1824, Thomas Jefferson deemed coffee "the favorite drink of the civilized world."
   Now after reading these mind-blowing facts you must be thinking to get a cup of coffee right away, and you can multiply your coffee experience by trying (your coffee product), which can certainly streamline your morning.