Here are some fun little coffee facts and statistics:
27% of US coffee drinkers add a sweetener or sugar to their coffee Over 7 million tons of green (unroasted) coffee beans are produced worldwide. Most of these beans are hand picked by workers in the fields. Hawaii is the only state in the United States that produces coffee. If you count the US territory of Puerto Rico as a state, then the United States of America has two coffee producing states. Germans consume about 16 pounds of coffee per person yearly. This makes Germany not only a large consumer of beer - but the second largest consumer of coffee in the world! More than 50 countries produce and grow coffee worldwide. However, not one of these countries the coffee boundary, which encompasses the regions between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn (including the Equator) Previously, until about the 1900’s, coffee was roasted in a frying pan over a charcoal or wood fire.
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