Over 1 and half billion cups of coffee are drunk daily around the world daily with over 50% being drunk during breakfast.  It is the most consumed beverage in the world.

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Coffee is grown in more than 50 countries all within 1000 miles of the equator between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

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Next to oil, coffee is the largest traded commodity in the world with the annual global consumption being over 12 billion pounds.

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The coffee industry employees of 25 million people worldwide.

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It takes approximately 2000 coffee cherries to make 1lb of coffee and as a coffee cherry contains 2 beans, that's 4000 coffee beans.

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Italy has over 200,000 coffee bars. The Italians do not drink their espresso during mealtime, but drink during a separate event.  In fact, the espresso is so important to Italian daily life that the price is government regulated.

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An espresso has only 1/3 the caffeine than in a regular cup of coffee.  Caffeine is actually the product of bean type, ratio of coffee to water and brewing method. Because caffeine is burnt off during the roasting process, dark roasts have the least caffeine and light roasts have the most caffeine.

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Arabica coffee acounts for more than 70% of the coffee produced in the world even though it is more expensive and more difficult to cultivate than Robusta coffee.  It takes an Arabica coffee tree three to five years to mature and then it will produce only 1lb of coffee per growing season.

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