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Saturday, September 17, 2005 -----

10 Fun Facts About Coffee

1. One of the rarest and most expensive coffees in the world is Kopi Luwak and is priced at around $300 a pound.
2. There are over 200,000 espresso bars in Italy!
3. Decaffeinated coffee cannot contain more that 0.10 percent of caffeine according to the US Dept of Agriculture.
4. In order to make one pound of coffee, it takes about four thousand coffee beans.
5. One mature coffee plant will produce approximately one pound of coffee each year.
6. The coffee that naturally contains the least amount of caffeine is Arabica coffee, 98.6 to 99.2 percent caffeine free.
7. The number of cups of coffee consumed annually is approximately four hundred billion cups!
8. The ever popular espresso blends can contain from three to seven various types of beans.
9. There are more than 100 various coffee growing regions in the world.
10. To remove the caffeine from coffee beans, the process happens prior to roasting.

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