Ten secrets about coffee that baristas must know

You may have a cup of coffee every morning, but I'm afraid you don't know much about coffee, do you? Although it's easy to pour a cup of coffee. I'm afraid the following 10 facts about coffee won't be acceptable to you for a while, but I'm sure you'll want a cup as soon as you finish reading it.

1. Coffee is actually a kind of berry.

This is incredible. Coffee is actually a kind of red berry. It grows on trees.

two。 Caffeine is beautiful.

Take a look at this picture. It's a close-up of caffeine crystals. More beautiful than the Mona Lisa.

3. Welcome to the coffee belt.

No, this map is not a hot spot these days. It's all the coffee producing places in the world.

4. Caffeine acts very fast.

Within ten minutes of your first sip of coffee, caffeine is already at work. How amazing.

5. Coffee does not cause dehydration unless you drink too much

For a long time. Coffee is considered to be a powerful diuretic. It removes moisture from your body, leaving you short of water. Modern research shows that as long as you drink no more than two cups of coffee a day, there is no problem of dehydration at all. But can you really resist just one drink?

6. Coffee can keep you young

Coffee contains a lot of antioxidants, which help the body get rid of substances called free radicals. Free radicals are a nuisance absorbed by the human body from the environment, which can lead to Parkinson's disease, diabetes and heart disease.

7. You can also take vitamins from coffee.

Nutrients in a cup of coffee: 1% of the daily recommended amount of vitamin B2, 6% of the daily recommended amount of vitamin B5, and 3% of the recommended amount of manganese and potassium. This is a healthy drink.

8. Drinking coffee makes you lose weight.

The caffeine in coffee can improve your basic metabolism. The study found that this improvement is considerable, may be as high as 11%, so if you fail to lose weight, have a drink.

9. Iced coffee is more expensive

Have you found that iced coffee is more expensive than hot coffee? That's because iced coffee is more troublesome to make, and it's another expense to add plastic trays and straws to match it. So let's keep it hot.

10. Black ivory coffee

Black ivory coffee is the most expensive coffee in the world, about $50 a cup. It comes from elephant droppings. It obviously tastes unique.

Source: food and wine