Koffee Facts

  • Coffee has long been associated with hepatoprotective effects
    • has been seen to reduce risk of liver malignancy, and chronic liver disease secondary to alcohol, viral hepatitis, and fatty infiltration
  • 75% of the United States population reports that they regularly consumer coffee
  • Coffee is the world’s 2nd largest traded commodity
  • Hawaii is the only American state that grows coffee
  • Coffee was discovered by a goat herder
  • In ancient Arab culture, a woman could only divorce her husband if he didn’t like her coffee
  • Pope Clement VIII called coffee “Satan’s Drink”
  • Beethoven 60 beans per cup before making his coffee
  • The most expensive coffee in the world is made by cat poop
  • An American spends on average $1,092 a year on coffee
  • Coffee was originally chewed
  • Coffee drinkers tend to live longer
    • The cat that holds the record of “Oldest Cat Ever” drank coffee every morning
    • Reduces risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and Parkinson’s
  • It would take 70 cups of coffee to kill a roughly 150-pound person
    • Drinking 30 cups in a short period of time is reportedly close to a lethal dose of caffeine
  • Brazil grows the most coffee in the world
  • Decaf does not mean caffeine-free
  • Coffee grounds are good exfoliators for your skin