Coffee is not grown anywhere in the United States except Puerto Rico and Hawaii.

In 1675 Charles II, King of England issued a proclamation banning Coffee Houses. He said that they were places where people met to plot against him.

30% of coffee drinkers in US added a sweetener of some kind to their coffee, compared with 57% in UK.

October 1st is official "Coffee Day" in Japan.

Scientists have discovered more than 800 different aromatic compounds in coffee.

Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world (oil is the first.)

Brazil produces around 40% of the world's coffee supply.

A Belgian named George Washington invented instant coffee in 1906.

Black coffee with no sugar contains no calories.

More than 20 million people worldwide, work in the coffee industry.

Drinking a single cup of coffee that has been brewing for 20 minutes provides the body with 300 phytochemicals which act as antioxidants and stay in the body for up to a month.

Espresso Coffee has just one third of the caffeine content of ordinary coffee.

Coffee beans are really berries. Each berry contains two beans (pips).

It takes 40 coffee beans to make an espresso.

Worldwide, more 1400 millions cups of coffee are drunk every day.

Caffeine, which is found in coffee, increases the effect of some painkillers, especially aspirin and paracetamol.