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After the picking of the coffee beans, the first step is to roast the beans. While the beans are being roasted, the chemicals that store the coffee aromas are separated from the beans and are collected. These aromas will be used to make coffee oil at a later time. Once all the beans have been roasted, they are ground to a powder and mixed with raising agents and sucrose. The powder mix is then fermented for 4 hours at temperatures of 22 Celsius.

The aroma, flavour, caffeine content and taste vary according to the area and conditions the coffee beans are grown in. There are many different types of coffee beans. The two most common are: Arabica and Robusta.

Research and studies into the health benefits of coffee, have been around for many years and they claim that there are some major benefits of drinking coffee on a regular basis. The beans are very high in chlorogenic acid (a type of antioxidant). Between 70 and 200mg can be found in a cup of Arabica whereas a cup of Robusta can have as much as 350mg.

If you are a regular coffee drinker it's thought that you can get almost 70% of your recommended allowance of these antioxidants through coffee. You can get on average 500mg of cinnamates (caffeic acid) and 1g of cinnamate esters (chlorogenic acid) every day.

Coffee originated in Ethiopia, which is in East Africa. Almost 60% of all export trade in Ethiopia is coffee. After petroleum, coffee is the most exported item in the world.

Did You Know?

*It takes five years for a coffee tree to reach maturity.

*One pound (in weight) is the average amount of coffee a single tree can produce in one year

*Venice opened the first coffee house in Europe, in 1683

*Coffee was available in Europe from around 1608, however it was mostly the rich who could afford it.

*A coffee berry typically has two "beans". Berries that have three beans are believed to be good luck.

*A Belgian man by the name of George Washington, invented the instant coffee in 1906.

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