Enjoy Your Coffee
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I was doing some research and found quite an interesting study about coffee, “the buzz of coffee.”
You know, it is believed that it was a goat herder in Ethiopia who discovered coffee about 1,200 years ago, when his goat got an energy boost after eating some red berries.
It says that each flower on a coffee tree produces a small red fruit known as a coffee cherry or coffee berry with two green coffee beans inside. Isn’t that interesting? Yet coffee trees can grow as tall as a three-story building and it takes approximately 2,000 coffee cherries which is 4,000 beans to produce one pound of roasted coffee. Researchers estimate that there are more than 100 known species of coffee plants. It even takes up to four years for a coffee seed to grow in a tree that produces coffee beans. Incredible. Even more so, Americans spend over 40 billion dollars on coffee each year according to one study and it takes approximately 37 gallons of water to make just one cup of coffee if you factor in what it takes to grow and process the beans. Quite interesting and absolutely mind-boggling statistics. (more…)
