Coffee Month

Here are more stats for you. Coffee is full of surprises, and here are a few facts you may not know:
• Coffee grows in more than 50 countries around the world and there are 900 different flavors of Arabica coffee beans, which can change if beans are exposed to air or light. Therefore, storing your coffee properly makes a difference in it’s flavor.
• The coffee beans increase in volume during roasting, up to an 18.60% increase. Think about that when buying whole coffee beans vs. ground beans.
• There is more fiber and antioxidants in coffee than in orange juice. A Spanish study concludes that brewed coffee has a significantly higher amount of soluble dietary fiber than most common beverages.
• Taking certain medications can make your mouth dry, or it can happen naturally. Dry mouth can be more than just uncomfortable, it can cause problems like impeding a person’s speech. Most people do not know that coffee can help relieve dry-mouth, cappuccino to be specific. In medicine, dry mouth is called xerostomia and a Poland research group suggests drinking cappuccino. Drinking 15.0g of cappuccino coffee within a five-minute span will increase saliva. The effect of cappuccino on dry mouth can last anywhere from half an hour up to four hours, the average being around two hours.
• This one is kind of a no-brainer, and you already know coffee can wake you up. But, do you know that drinking small amounts over a period of time works better than drinking a whole bunch at once (according to a group study on sleep and wakefulness at Harvard Medical School).
• A study done in Germany found that caffeine can help improve handwriting, after consuming caffeine subject’s handwriting movements were more fluent and quick.
• Coffee also has an effect on memory, which researchers claim to have seen work using a scanning technique called functional magnetic imaging (fMRI). The scans showed “significant activity” in the parts of the brain where working memory and attention/concentration are located in the subjects that consumed caffeine. The scans also showed caffeine’s has more of an impact on short-term memory than long-term memory.
• Fight jet lag with coffee. Researchers in France found that volunteers that took caffeine pills for four days after an eastbound flight felt less sleepy than volunteers that took a placebo.
• Coffee beans are technically not a bean but a cherry. The bean is the seed of the coffee plant (a pit inside the red or purple fruit that grows on the tree).
• 37% of people that drink coffee drink it black, and 63% add sweeteners like sugar.
• The National Safety Council says coffee does not sober up a drunken person, and in some cases, it could increase the adverse effects of the alcohol.

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What I am drinking now: Gevalia’s Antico Caffe Greco

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