D.fter water is the most popular drink in the world: almost 1.6 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day. A truly astounding number that covers virtually every corner of the planet. Even more surprising is the fact that the country where it is consumed the most is Finland, with 12 kg per year per capita. While the one where it is consumed less is Puerto Rico, with 400 grams of coffee for each person.
Only in twelfth place in the ranking do we find Italy, with 5.9 kg of coffee per capita, after Switzerland, Canada, Denmark and Austria.
When is it best to drink coffee
While for many the day really begins with a good cup of coffee, to maximize its energizing effects, the best time to drink it may not coincide with waking up. According to science the best time to drink coffee would be from 9:30 to 11:30 in the morning. This is supported by neuroscience and chrono-pharmacology, a branch of medicine that relates the intake of drugs or psychoactive substances to the trend of our natural biological clock.
Some people also love it drink coffee before training, to have extra energy available. Not a bad idea, quite the contrary. The effects of coffee are felt quite soon after drinking it. So, drinking a cup half an hour before exercise can help with resistance to exertion.
Curiosities about coffee
Do you know why it is called coffee? Around the year 1000 some Arab traders brought from their travels to Africa some coffee beans from which they obtained an exciting drink by boiling and called it qahwa (‘exciting’). Hence to the Turkish word kahve and it was a short step to the Italian coffee. But there are also those who argue that the name actually comes from Caffa, a region of Ethiopia where it grows spontaneously.
However, the coffee spread in Europe only in the 17th century with the provisional name of ‘wine of Arabia’ and was initially branded by the Church as ‘devil’s drink’, for its exciting properties.
Fun fact: composer Johann Sebastian Bach liked coffee so much from dedicate a cantata to him – the Kaffeekantate – performed in Leipzig between 1732 and 1735.
How to make good coffee
There are diehards of moka, but by now there are so many who have converted to the more practical, fast and multifunctional coffee machines that in just over a minute prepare it starting from ready-made and packaged pods or ground coffee beans. at the moment.
And indeed there are different types: from those specific for those who love American coffee, to those that in addition to this drink are also able to prepare tea and infusions of various types, passing through those with complementary accessories to obtain cappuccinos with creamy and velvety foams just like the ones in the bar.
But there are also those who they communicate with modern voice assistants to be set remotely and to warn when the capsules are running out and those that can be programmed to find a steaming hot coffee at a preset date. In the gallery above you will find the newest and most compact.
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