Why was the coffee ban in Sweden, the top coffee consumer in the world, cancelled?

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Let's take a look at Sweden's history of leading coffee consumption in the world.

Sweden currently has the world's top coffee consumption. Let's take a look at the time of coffee spread and the current coffee situation.

Coffee spreads in Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a huge peninsula in northern Europe. It is said that coffee began to spread to this place later than other European countries around the 18th century.

In Sweden, a critical statement was issued in 1746 against excessive consumption of coffee and tea. From this point of view, it seems that citizens have always liked coffee since the beginning of the spread.

At the same time, the coffee ban was issued several times in Sweden until around 1829.

Try coffee

King Gustav III III of Sweden conducted a human experiment on a prisoner to check the safety of coffee. For the twin prisoners, we continued to drink 20 cups of coffee and 20 cups of tea, and test whether the body was harmed.

As a result, prisoners who continued to drink black tea died first. It's a very strange experiment from now on, but it seems to prove that "coffee is harmless". This triggered the government to approve the drinking of coffee, which became a national drink.

The relationship between climate and coffee

Sweden is still a coffee consumer competing for first and second place in the world, but the climate seems to have something to do with it. Coffee is often used to keep the body warm, while in countries with cold climates, consumption is high all the year round.

Although there are four seasons or even one day in Sweden, when the summer average temperature is very positive and back 10 ℃, it becomes more negative in the country's winter climate. In an era when heating systems are weak, coffee may be indispensable.

Traditionally known as "FICA"

In Sweden, there is a traditional custom called "Fika" about coffee.

A word with the meaning of "drinking coffee" is a filler. However, it is not simply to drink a cup of coffee, enjoy a cup of coffee, while enjoying a conversation with friends and lovers snacks, such as.

The Swedish people are satisfied because the word is such a FICA's love culture, coffee is what is a valuable means of communication.

Swedish coffee culture is indispensable.

How's it going? The Swedish coffee ban and the king's will conducted human experiments. In addition to whether this experiment is correct, Sweden is unusual because of the climate during this period, I tried to firmly prove harmless coffee.

For coffee is still a lot of drunk, this is that I may have become the king at that time began to be recognized as "safe coffee".