Andy

Can Coffee Be Grown at Home?

Although the coffee plant and tree are beautiful to look at, especially during blossoming and unless you have an absolute fortune to spend on the production process, the chances of you reaping the rewards of having a coffee tree in your back garden are slim to none. Sorry! You see, actually drinking your ‘coffee harvest’ and growing the tree are two completely different things. It could actually be...

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Does Coffee Help With Constipation?

There is some confusion about coffee helping with constipation, so after extensive research this is what I have uncovered. Coffee is a diuretic, which means that your need to pass urine will increase when you drink it. And if you don’t replace this loss of fluid from your body (with water), you will find yourself in a state of dehydration. And dehydration is a cause of constipation. So does coffee...

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How many people drink coffee?

Since coffee was introduced to western civilization around three hundred years ago, the amount of people who drink coffee has exploded in numbers. It’s popularity, not just as a kick start to the day with that all important caffeine fix, but it a social beverage widely accepted as a ‘must have’ when visiting someone’s home. From it’s origins in Ethiopia, to the first coffee...

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How much caffeine in an iced coffee?

Providing you make your coffee according to some of the recipes I have put on this site, your iced coffee will have the same amount of caffeine in it, as the coffee would if it was enjoyed hot. If you don’t like the acidity of coffee, but do like the coffee taste then why not try an iced coffee. You will find a few chilled coffee recipes on this...

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Coffee and Health

Coffee and Health Effects Is coffee good for you, is it bad for you and is caffeine even a drug? There are pro’s and con’s for drinking a daily caffeinated brew. You either love it enough to start every morning by clicking the switch on that fancy stainless steel ornament in the kitchen, then waiting for your early morning kick of caffeine! Or you dislike it’s bitter disgusting aroma,...