The Eleventh Commandment
                                                       THOU SHALT DRINK COFFEE!skills of the girls; thank you to all

Coffee Facts

• 65 countries in the world grow coffee. They are all along the equator, within the tropics.
• In 1675 Charles II, King of England issued a proclamation banning Coffee Houses. He said that they were places where people met to plot against him.
• 30% of coffee drinkers in US added a sweetener of some kind to their coffee, compared with 57% in UK.
• October 1st is official “Coffee Day” in Japan.
• Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world (oil is the first.)
• Coffee has been used as a beverage for over 700 years.
• Black coffee with no sugar contains no calories.
• There are two species of coffee plant: Arabica and Robusta.
• Drinking a single cup of coffee that has been brewing for 20 minutes provides the body with 300 phytochemicals which act as antioxidants and stay in the body for up to a month.
• Espresso Coffee has just one third of the caffeine content of ordinary coffee.
• Coffee beans are really berries. Each berry contains two beans (pips).
• It takes 40 coffee beans to make an espresso.
• One coffee tree yields less than half a kilo of coffee per year.
• Worldwide, more 1.4 billlion cups of coffee are drunk every day.
• Caffeine, which is found in coffee, increases the effect of some painkillers, especially aspirin and paracetamol.