10 facts about coffee that will surprise you
One of the world's most expensive coffee brands is made from the dung of Thai elephants.
Coffee is most effective if consumed between 9.30am and 11.30am.
If that does not encourage you enough to drink as much coffee as you can within those two hours then nothing else will.
Celebrate International Coffee Day by having a at least five cups for the morning and by knowing these interesting facts:
1. According to an online web site there is a Coffee Shop in France where not saying “hello” and “please” makes your coffee more expensive.
2. The world consumes close to 2.25 billion cups of coffee every day.
3. Coffee drinkers are at a lower risk of diseases such as Parkinson’s Disease, Type II Diabetes, and Heart Disease.
4. Coffee doesn’t taste like it smells because saliva wipes out half of the flavour.
5. Drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee improves blood flow.
6. Drinking coffee can help you burn fat.
7. One of the world’s most expensive coffee brands is made from the dung of Thai elephants.
8. Black Ivory coffee is the most expensive coffee in the world which costs about R702 and is made from elephant dung.
9. An online article states, If you yelled for eight years, seven months and six days, you would have produced enough energy to heat one cup of coffee.
10. Drinking coffee can help you live a longer and healthier life.
