2. • Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from
roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds
of berries from the Coffea plant. The genus
Coffea is native to tropical Africa,
and Madagascar,
the Comoros, Mauritius and Réunion in the
Indian Ocean.
3. • The plant was exported from Africa to
countries around the world and coffee plants
are now cultivated in over 70 countries,
primarily in the equatorial regions of the
Americas, Southeast Asia, India, and Africa.
4. • Coffee is a major export commodity: it is the
top agricultural export for numerous countries
and is among the world's largest legal
agricultural exports.It is one of the most
valuable commodities exported by developing
countries. Green (unroasted) coffee is one of
the most traded agricultural commodities in
the world.
5. • Coffee ingestion on average is about a third of
that of tap water in North America and
Europe. Worldwide, 6.7 million metric tons of
coffee were produced annually in 1998–2000,
and the forecast is a rise to seven million
metric tons annually by 2010.
• Brazil is the largest coffee exporting nation.
6. • Coffee is actually very healthy.
• It is loaded with antioxidants and beneficial
nutrients that can improve your health.
• The studies show that coffee drinkers have a
much lower risk of several serious diseases.
