what are some facts that people dont know about coffee?

Question

i finally chose coffee as my research topic for my multi-genre project but i need to make sure there some facts most people dont know about coffee-especially teachers.if not please suggest something that goes a long with what im asking.i need to know if coffee has lots of research behind it becasue that's what this project is based on.how about potato chips?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/coffee/history.htm

http://www.fitwise.com/Benefits_Caffeine.asp

Here are some sites on coffee. Perhaps you can discover something in these articles.

Answer 2

Coffee has a heckahistory.
When I worked at a local Coffee Roasting Company (coffee shop selling beans by the pound & serving espresso, etc.), I was given a book to review. It was entitled something like The History of Coffee (duh). It was comprehensive and terrific. Call the public library and ask for the Reference Librarian, ask what books there are on the subject. They'll hold a few for you & you can see which ones you want to use for your report.
Here's an incredible fact which I learned (ONE guess how...) for myself: Drinking too much coffee can deplete your water soluable vitamins (coffee is a diuretic). Inositol is a B vitamin (water soluable). When you're short on inositol, the muscle tissue in your scalp doesn't function well and lets go of more strands of hair than what is normal. Only after losing hair (from the root, not breakage) when I shampooed, rinsed, detangled with the wide-tooth comb, and brushed when dry - did I begin searching for the reason why. Finally, after exhausting every other possibility I came across that fact, which proved true. I increased my B vitamins, cut way back on the caffeine and voila! Hair stayed in (I mean, it was EVERYwhere, counters, couch, pillows, clogging the tub drain, much more than there should be in the brush...). I've never met anyone who's had this experience or known this fact. I have enlightened a few, tho'.
Potato chips? Bor-ring. Wait 'till you read the stories about the origin of coffee (the goats & the berries!). Take your books to a coffee shop, order a single Mocha, no whip, and dive in. Happy researching.
ps/ you can incorporate the Fair Trade concept (politics, culture, women-owned businesses, economics), that'd be great.

Answer 3

I can't remember this exact account, but it's kinda cool and worth the research. Coffe was an Arab drink, highly prized and highly guarded. Not a single seed was allowed to leave it's original homeland. Then one day a servant stole one plant and headed, I believe to Brazil. The trip was a disaster, but the man somehow kept the plant alive. Once in Brazil he began his fortune making scheme. Eventually something happened and coffe wound up growing better in Columbia. That's where Columbian Coffe comes from. A good, but greedy man, faced death, and peril at sea to get it to the West. Sorry that I don't remember the exact story. But it is true and very interesting.

Answer 4

A recent study at John Hopkins Medical Institute found people who drank five or more cups of coffee a day had two to three times the risk of coronary heart disease.

Answer 5

This site might have some things you can use.
http://library.thinkquest.org/5441/facts.html

If that doesn't work go to google and type in "coffee facts" or something along those lines.

Answer 6

Many studies have been performed on the relationship between coffee consumption and many medical conditions, ranging from diabetes and cardiovascular disease to cancer and cirrhosis.

Answer 7

look around the site i put in the source, and that should help a lot.
^coffee^ ^_^


look around the other site i put in the source.
^potato chips^ =3