Fun Facts About Coffee
1.) Sense of smell, more than any of the other senses, makes our final judgment on coffee.
2.) Coffee is the 2nd most traded commodity in the world economy, right behind oil.
3.) When it comes to the roast there is some confusion. French & Italian roasts refer to the type of roast, rather than the country of origin.
4.) It takes almost 7 lbs. of hand-picked coffee cherry to produce 1 lb. of roasted coffee.
5.) The term “coffee beans” is commonly used even though they come from berries. It’s because each coffee berry has two beans.
6.) The USA is the world’s largest consumer of coffee. We import 16 to 20 million bags or 2.5 million lbs. annually , which represent about 1/3 of all coffee exported in the world. Over 1/2 of the US population drinks coffee daily, typically drinking 3.4 cups of coffee a day.
7.) Men on average tend to drink more coffee than women (1.7 cups per day vs 1.5 cups).
8.) It takes about 2,000 coffee cherries to produce 1 lb. of coffee beans.
9.) One coffee tree will yield slightly less than 1 pound of coffee per year.
10.) An Espresso is made with 42 coffee beans.
11.) 37% of coffee drinkers drink their coffee black and 63% add a sweetener or creamer.
