Coffee Facts

As well as being supremely delicious, coffee is also a vast and diverting subject to study. Here’s a taster:

• Coffee is the world's second most traded commodity after oil
• In total it is drunk at a rate of 1,400 million cups per day
• Every year around 7 million tonnes of green coffee is harvested world wide
• An acre of coffee trees produces around 900 kilos of beans
• Each tree produces around 1 kilo of raw coffee each year for around 20 years
• The world's largest producer is Brazil and Colombia is second
• There are 100 million working in the coffee industry world wide
• Black coffee doesn't contain any calories
• Coffee grows as two green beans in a red berry
• In Japan, October 1st is officially known as 'Coffee Day'
• In Germany, they consume just over 7 kilos per person each year
• In England, the first café opened in 1662
• In 1685, Lloyds of London began life… as a café

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