According to one of the legends, the archangel Gabriel brought the sick prophet Muhammad a cup of a "black as a Kaaba in Mecca" drink that healed him. Since that time, arguments about coffee have not abated: some speak useful, others attribute all kinds of disadvantages to it. 1000 BC - the people of Galla in Ethiopia began to use the fruits of the coffee tree in foodstuffs.The coffee was first consumed in the province of Caffa - hence the name of the drink.In 1600, Italian negotiators brought coffee to Europe. The opiates were wary of these armature grains, but Pope Clement the seventeenth blessed him.
In 1899 an American chemist of Japanese origin invented powdered tea and applied this technology to coffee. In 1938, the first instant coffee, produced in industrial conditions, was produced by Nescafe. The first machine for the industrial "extraction" of instant coffee is exhibited at the Nescafe Corporation's food museum in Vevey (Switzerland). To date, the best brand of coffee is Jamaican Blue Mountain.
There are two main types of coffee tree. Arabica - much of the world's coffee production is based on the varieties of this tree. The arabica grains have a beautiful oblong shape, with a smooth surface have a bluish-greenish color. The taste qualities of this sort of coffee are very high. Robusta is a faster growing, more profitable and resistant to pests variety than Arabica. The robusta grains have a rounded shape, from light brown to grayish-green in color. For this variety, one quarter of the world's production of this beverage is of lower quality. It has a somewhat earthy and rather harsh taste.
According to medics, coffee has its advantages:
- Caffeine, contained in coffee, has a beneficial effect on people suffering from bronchial asthma. That's just to achieve a positive effect, during seizures, you need to drink not about six cups of coffee;
- coffee tones up, helps to cheer up, and also promotes intellectual activity;
- Caffeine improves the production of gastric juice, which has a beneficial effect on digestion, when a person has just eaten. However, this is unacceptable for people with high acidity of the stomach and ulcer;
- Espresso instead of tablets. In London, an experiment was conducted, and checked whether caffeine can reduce pain? It turned out, maybe! Especially the head and the muscle. This can be explained by changes in the vessels. Now, caffeine, contained in large quantities in coffee, is a part of painkillers. It's strange that only women reacted to coffee. Most men, as usual, were on the sidelines;
- Caffeine can increase sexual attraction in women, but only in those who use it irregularly.
- the coffee contains vitamins of group B. They regulate the course of many biochemical processes in the body and this can prevent the occurrence of a number of serious diseases, and also contribute to the strengthening of the human nervous system. For example, coffee reduces the onset of colon cancer by 25%; 45% - the occurrence of kidney stones; 80% - cirrhosis of the liver and 50% - Parkinson's disease.
Additional positive properties of coffee:
- coffee is a part of many modern cosmetics;
- coffee grounds - an excellent body scrub;
- Scientists have proved that those who regularly drink coffee have sex more often and longer than those who do not drink it;
- If there is no balm near the hand, giving shine to the curls, brew strong coffee and rinse hair, this will give the dark hair an unprecedented sheen.
Disadvantages of coffee:
- provokes insomnia;
- increases the production of stress hormones, which contributes to depression, can cause increased blood pressure and high heart rate;
- if you drink more than 4 cups of coffee a day, calcium is excreted from the body and the bones become brittle;
- coffee can kill you, but for this, experts say, you need to drink from 80 to 100 cups in one go. It is better not to try!
Coffee and business.
Do you have serious business negotiations, or are you going to conclude a bargain, and maybe you decided to make an offer of a hand and a heart? The main thing that unites all these events is the desire to achieve a positive result. So first you should offer your friends a cup of coffee, after which you will have a much greater chance of successfully solving issues. At least, so say scientists who during experiments have established that 2 cups of coffee make a person much more pliable.
Today the world has started a real coffee. Coffee became the most consumed beverage in the world, even ahead of Coca-Cola. Most of all they are fond of Americans, followed by Germans, Japanese, French, Italians, Englishmen and Ethiopians. In the whole world, an average of 4.5 thousand cups per second is drunk. Men use less coffee than women. 63% of coffee lovers prefer to drink it with milk and sugar, and only 40 drink coffee without anything. 57% drink coffee for breakfast, 34% - later with food and 13% - at another time. Despite all the controversies, experts agree that 2 cups of coffee per day favorably affects human health, if there are no contraindications.