For many, coffee is an everyday beverage. Coffee is consumed by people worldwide over 400 billion times each year, with breakfast, at work, at school, and so on throughout the day. Even for avid coffee drinker, there are things about coffee that majority of people do not know. Here are six relatively unknown facts about coffee:

Coffee can help burn fat

As of authority nutrition.com, studies have shown that coffee can boost the metabolism three to eleven percent. Coffee can also improve fat burning in the body, increasing it by almost thirty percent in some individuals. It can also improve physical performance, boosting performance and breakdowns of fat to be used as fuel. It can even be helpful to drink a cup of coffee thirty minutes before a work out.

Coffee beans come from a fruit.

Coffee comes from a special berry plant and was originally even eaten as a food. The coffee bean is actually a seed from a cherry-like fruit, yet, named a “bean” as it resembles beans more than pits of fruit.

Coffee stays warmer when you add cream.

Goodhousekeeping.com says that adding creaming decreases the rate coffee cools down by twenty percent. On top of that adding cream can weaken the effects of caffeine. The cream leads the body to absorb coffee slower when cream or milk is added, decreasing the effect of caffeine.

A dark roast has less caffeine than a lighter roast coffee.

As dark roast coffees generally have stronger flavor, it leads people to believe it has more caffeine; but, this is false. Therefore, if you are drinking the coffee for the caffeine, not the taste, it is better to turn towards a light roast.

Decaf coffee still has caffeine.

The amount of caffeine is significantly lower, but still there. An eight ounce cup of decaf will have two to twelve milligrams of caffeine, while a regular cup can have anywhere from 90 to 200 milligrams.

Hawaii is the only U.S. state that commercially produces coffee.

This is surprising considering that Americans drink an average 3.1 cups of coffee each day and the U.S. will spend four billion dollars of coffee each year. Most coffee beans come from South America, especially in Brazil and Colombia.

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