The invention of Coffee, what country’s customs, and which region’s Coffee is best — 10 unknown facts about Coffee.

Md. Kobirul Islam
3 min readJul 31, 2023

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There has never been as much buzz and discussion about Coffee in today’s urban society. Many people have a habit of drinking coffee before starting their daily work, after lunch, or on a lazy afternoon.

According to the International Coffee Organization, 90 million 60 kg bags of Coffee were sold worldwide in 1991. This year that number will reach 16 crores.

The beans brewed to produce Coffee are the roasted seeds of a fruit called a coffee cherry.

If you bite into the primary coffee cherry fruit, the seed splits into two oval-shaped halves.

According to the US National Coffee Association, 5% of the world’s coffee consists of a single seed called the ‘peaberry’.

These ‘peaberry’ coffees are hand-separated. This type of coffee bean is famous for its strong flavor and excellent blend.

2. Somewhere people don’t drink coffee, they eat it

Although people have been drinking coffee for ages, people feel more comfortable drinking it somewhere.

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Many Coffee breweries make flour from spoiled Coffee cherries. This flour makes bread, chocolate, sauce, or cake.

It does not taste quite like Coffee; Its taste varies depending on the variety of the seed.

3. Coffee made from shit can be very expensive!

The world’s most expensive Coffee reaches humans through the digestive system of either of these two animals — a mammal called a ‘civet’ — a cat or an elephant.

‘Kopi Luak’ is a type of Coffee made from the dung of the civet, an Indonesian mammal.

Coffee cherries are naturally fermented as they pass through the cat’s digestive system, then harvested and sold.

The price of 500 grams of that type of Coffee can be up to 700 dollars (about 60 thousand taka).

However, this type of Coffee is currently being challenged by Black Ivory Coffee. This type of Coffee is made from the droppings of elephants in Thailand after eating hand-separated Coffee cherries.

Black Ivory Coffee was invented by a Canadian named Blake Dinkin.

The price of 35 grams of Black Ivory Coffee in the United States is around $85.

4. Coffee is good for your health

Coffee is rich in antioxidants. They help our body cells to prevent harmful toxins and chemicals.

A study published earlier this year found that drinking at least three cups of coffee a day can reduce the risk of many serious diseases, including heart attacks.

The research was carried out with the data of 500,000 people from ten European countries for 16 years.

The caffeine content of Coffee helps to increase the freshness and sports activity of people.

5. But Scandinavian people drink the most coffee

According to the International Coffee Association, Finnish residents drink the highest amount of Coffee on average.

The average annual Coffee consumption of a Finnish person is about 12 kg.

In addition, the average Coffee consumption of people in Norway and Iceland is over 9 kg per year. Residents of Denmark and Sweden also consume an average of more than 8 kg of Coffee per year.

6. Tea or Coffee?

Which is popular in your country — tea or Coffee?

According to the British Coffee Association, Coffee is the most popular drink in the world. About 200 million cups of coffee are drunk in the world every day.

But is the equation really that simple?

Two of the world’s most populous countries — India and China — prefer tea over Coffee.

Coffee is popular in the Americas and mainland Europe; However, tea is still popular in most parts of Asia and the former Soviet Union.

Geographer David Grieg, in his publication published in 2006, pointed out that to solve this conflict between tea and Coffee, it is necessary to calculate not by weight, but by how many cups of tea or Coffee are drunk.

According to him, the comparison should be made to how many liters of tea or Coffee were drunk.

Because of weight, about 80% more Coffee is drunk than the amount of tea that is drunk in the world every year.

But while about 2 grams of tea leaves are needed to make a cup of tea, about 10 grams of Coffee seeds are needed to make a cup of Coffee.

By this calculation, according to him, “One cup of Coffee can be equivalent to three cups of tea.”

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Md. Kobirul Islam
Md. Kobirul Islam

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