Coffee

Question # 1 What is the purpose of coffee?

Drinking coffee regularly is associated with a reduced risk of getting the following diseases:  Diabetes.  Cardiovascular disease.  Parkinson's disease.  Liver disease, including liver cancer.  Depression. http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-scientist-explains-coffee-2015-11?IR=T http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/coffee-prevents-type-2-diabetes-decaf-is-fine-too/21806

Coffee drinkers have a lower risk of dying from heart disease, respiratory disease, stroke, accidents and injuries, diabetes, and infections, but not from cancer.

http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20120516/coffee-may-be-part-of-recipe-for-longer-life

Research shows that coffee may boost the brain’s ability to store long-term memories.

http://www.psfk.com/2014/01/coffee-long-term-memory.html

Further inspiration https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140829075122-6099884-coffee-and-values

Question # 2 Who drinks how much coffee?

Every day, we drink more than 23.5 million kilos of coffee.

http://sharedvalue.org/groups/less-one-cent-cup-coffee-fair

How many kilos of coffee does each person drink per year?

Sources http://chartsbin.com/view/581 http://www.business-opportunities.biz/2011/02/17/worldwide-coffee-consumption/

Question # 3 Who grows which type and how much coffee?

Coffee beans are grown in more than 50 different countries.

http://www.makethelist.net/7-best-things-about-coffee/

The top 10 coffee producing countries are shown in yellow

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/coffee/ax/frame.html

Colombia has 560,000 coffee producers with an average coffee farm size of 1.6 hectares.

http://modernfarmer.com/2013/05/colombian-coffee-at-the-crossroads/

Coffee species

Arabica

Robusta

70% of world consumption

30% of world consumption

Sources http://www.makethelist.net/7-best-things-about-coffee/ http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee

Arabica coffee Locations  Central and South America, India, Eastern Africa and Papua New Guinea.  Grown at higher altitudes than robusta coffee.

Taste  Milder taste than robusta coffee.  Has a refined aroma and delicate flavor.  Has a lower caffeine content than robusta coffee.

Sources http://www.makethelist.net/7-best-things-about-coffee/ http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee

Robusta coffee Location Tends to be grown in areas such as India, Brazil, Malaysia and Western and Central Africa.

Contents and taste  Stronger, more bitter taste than the milder Arabica coffee.  Higher caffeine content than arabica coffee.

Sources http://www.makethelist.net/7-best-things-about-coffee/ http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee

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