Coffee Facts

Coffee beans are not actually beans at all; they are the seeds inside the red coffee berries.
Coffee plants can grow to over 6 m tall, but they are usually pruned to under 4 m to make picking easier.
A coffee plant yields only enough berries to make about 0.7 kg of coffee each year.
Coffee berries are picked by hand then pulped to remove the flesh and finally roasted.
Tea is the leaves of the evergreen tea plant that grows in the tropics, mostly at an altitude of between 1000 and 2000 m.
Coffee comes from the glossy, evergreen Coffee arabica shrub, which originally grew wild in Ethiopia. Coffee is now grown in tropical countries around the world.
The coffee plant is a mountain plant and grows best from about 1000 to 2500 m up.
Workers called ‘tea pluckers’ pick leaves from mature tea plants by hand. The leaves are then taken to a nearby factory to be dried, crushed and treated.
Tea plants have small, white, scented flowers and nuts that look like hazelnuts.
Tea plants grow 9 m tall but they are pruned to 3 m.
Legend says Ethiopian goatherds discovered coffee when they saw their goats staying awake all night after eating the berries of the coffee plant.

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