In an article last week we asked who drinks the most coffee. It turns out what matters is the number of people in a nation who are drinking coffee more so that per capita coffee consumption. Thus the USA is the hands down winner in the race to consumer the most coffee. The USA consumes […]
Read More...According to the International Coffee Organization the world produces about 133 million bags of coffee a year and exports 93 million bags of coffee a year worth roughly $15 billion. Global consumption in coffee year 2009/10 totaled around 133.9 million bags, of which 72 million bags were consumed in Importing Member countries, 21.2 million in […]
Read More...Brazil is the largest producer of coffee by far. So, it should not be a surprise that Brazil drives the supply side of the supply and demand equation for coffee. Here is a snapshot of the coffee producing countries from Bloomberg Business. Total Coffee Production, thousands of 60 kilogram bags, 2010 to 2011 season Brazil […]
Read More...We would like to alert our readers to a bogus green coffee extract claim. In 2012 we published an article entitled, Lose Weight with Coffee Bean Extract. A chemist in Pennsylvania reports that when sixteen volunteers lost weight when they took a gram of green coffee bean extract daily for five months. According to the […]
Read More...How much of the cost of a cup of coffee are the beans? This question comes to mind as the price of Arabica coffee goes up again. We wrote previously that the Brazil drought drives coffee prices higher. But if the price of coffee beans goes up ten percent does the cost of your coffee […]
Read More...The caffeine in healthy organic coffee wakes you up, reduces your risk of depression, improves athletic performance, increases sexual appetite in women and enhances sexual performance in men. Organic coffee antioxidants help reduce the risk of type II diabetes and several kinds of cancer. Now, it turns out that there are vitamins in coffee as […]
Read More...There are two basic types of coffee beans, Arabica and Robusta. We mostly write about healthy organic coffee made from Arabica coffee beans. But there is another whole world of coffee for different uses in the world of Robusta coffee beans. So, how do robusta coffee beans differ from Arabica and what are Robusta coffee […]
Read More...If you prefer decaffeinated coffee instead of regular coffee, can you get healthy organic coffee as decaf? Yes, you can. And it can be difficult to find organic decaf coffee. First of all here is a little info about decaffeinated coffee. Decaf Coffee To meet FDA labeling requirements 97% of the caffeine has to be […]
Read More...Current research tells us that coffee is good for you and healthy organic coffee is even better. Coffee drinkers have lower risks of getting type II diabetes, various forms of cancer, depression, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and of committing suicide! There are, however, well over a hundred impurities that can be found in a cup […]
Read More...If you are looking for Arabica gourmet coffee your best choice for quality and a wide selection is from the Colombian brands of organic coffee. Colombian coffee comes from the Cafetero, the mountainous region of Colombia between Bogotá and the Pacific. This region comprises the departments or administrative regions of Caldas, Risaralda, Quindío, parts of […]
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