Friday 1st October 2021 is International Coffee Day – a chance to celebrate the humble coffee bean!
To mark the occasion, we thought we would share some fun facts you possibly didn’t know about your favourite pick-me-up…
- The chemical name for caffeine is Trimethylxanthine.
- Coffee is grown in an area called the ‘Bean Belt’. This is around the equator, between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
- The most expensive and rarest coffee in the world is Black Ivory coffee. Made in Thailand, this coffee is prepared by elephants that consume the Arabica coffee beans and process them during digestion. Their stomach acid breaks down the bean proteins and provides a characteristic robust flavour to the drink. It apparently sells for about £50 a cup.
- The largest coffee shop in the world is the Al Masaa Café in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It has 1,050 seats!
- Decaf coffee isn’t strictly caffeine free. An eight-ounce brewed cup of decaf coffee actually contains 2 to 12 milligrams of caffeine in comparison, a regular cup of coffee which is between 95 to 200 milligrams.
- The first machine for making espresso was built and patented in 1884 by Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy.
- An improved design was patented on April 28, 1903, by Luigi Bezzera
- Coffee is part fruit – it’s the pit of a fruit which looks a whole lot like a cherry, and is actually called a coffee cherry.
- Coffee was the first food to be freeze dried.
- And finally…..we sell a very tasty Coffee Mocha Ice Cream!
