Comparing and Contrasting Coffee and Tea

More than half of all American adults consume more than 3 cups of coffee. Also, a 1994 survey by the Agriculture Department found that on average, 64 gallons of soda are consumed by children and teenagers every year. Researchers have found that soft drinks have surpassed tea as the second leading source of caffeine for adults while being the top source of caffeine for children. People are not only getting their caffeine from coffee, soda and tea, but from other sources such as energy beverages, caffeinated water, herbal supplements and chocolate. You may not realize how much caffeine you are consuming on a daily basis because caffeine is not listed as an ingredient on the food or drink label, and the Nutrition Facts label does not show how much caffeine is in the product.

Coffee Crafters manufactures fluid bed coffee roasters using a patent pending chaff extraction system that allows for low temperature venting and easy installation. Mission: to manufacture the world's best coffee roaster in its class. The global coffee industry generates combined revenue of close to $10 billion a year. Approximately 25 million people depend on the coffee industry worldwide for their livelihood. The coffee industry is very concentrated at the top and fragmented at the bottom with the top 50 companies taking up to 70% of the sales.

For a lot of people drinking coffee has to be on their daily to-do list. While a fluid ounce of typical coffee has 18 milligrams of caffeine, a fluid ounce of Rockstar or Monster only pack 10 milligrams of caffeine. I believe we should all be concerned on the amount of sugar or caffeine that our favorite daily products contain. Clearly, not much research has been done on energy drinks, coffee on the other hand has been researched or the past 100 years. Just like anything else,

Caffeine as we know is very much present in what is thought to be the one of the most consumed beverages in America, coffee. In fact, Food Manufacturing, a Leading Source for Food Manufacturing writes in their article entitled ‘Consumer Trends: 83 percent of Americans Drink Coffee’ that “83% of American adults drink coffee”. I remember the first time I had a cup of coffee, I remember thinking that it was the best sugared-water anyone had ever given me, it gave me wings. That was when I was 7 years old, and coffee and I have been inseparable ever since. B- Most of the time when the word coffee pops up in conversations between ‘concerned family members and friends’, it almost always ends with “you need to stop, coffee will destroy you, eat you up, and spit you out as though you were poison”.

Instant coffee is coffee in freeze-dried powder or spray dried powder Decaffeinated coffee is last landing in the single digit percentile of each country’s consumption of coffee (coffee exporters guide). Origins Ethiopia is the birth place of coffee. It was known as the ancient land of Abyssinia du... ... middle of paper ... ...adget Mr. Coffee. Through smart marketing tactics, Mr. Coffee continued to be the most popular selling coffee machine by selling over 40,000 units a day. The year 1987 was the year of Starbucks and the start of the coffee industry’s revolution.

Coffee is a drink that has influenced world economy from the start. People have enjoyed the caffeinated drink called coffee for thousands of years and have spent their lives on perfecting and producing the many kinds of coffee. There are Many different types of coffee all of which are grown differently. The two most prominent types of coffee are Robusta and Arabica. Arabica is a mild coffee with not as much caffeine.

(A Brief) There are over 20,000 Starbucks locations around the United States and in 40 countries; compared to only 10,000 Dunkin' Donuts. (Carroll) Just the fact that there are more locations clearly shows that more people drink Starbucks than Dunkin' Donuts. Dunkin' Donuts was created twenty years before Starbuck, so you would think that Dunkin' would have more locations. Why spend two dollars for a coffee from Starbucks when you could spend a dollar at Dunkin Donuts or even McDonalds? Everyone knows Starbucks is more expensive but that doesn’t stop them from buying it.

When people drank their coffee it was seen as sophisticated and only something rich people could afford. Since they only marketed to areas like that they went from having one thousand locations in 1996 to fifteen thousand locations in 2007. Starbucks is now the largest coffee shoppe in the world. They have 22,766 stores in 65 countries and territories. More than 40 million customers visit the Starbucks retail stores every week.

However, most caffeine consumers have no idea how they react to their body chemistry, the chemical mechanism, the hidden side-effects, and the actual daily amount which they intake. "Researchers have attempted to find out how much caffeine people consume every day. It was estimated that in the United States, coffee drinkers drink an average of 2.6 cups per day. Total caffeine intake for coffee drinkers was 363.5 mg per day - this includes caffeine from coffee AND other sources like soft drinks, food and drugs. Non-coffee drinkers even get plenty of caffeine: former coffee drinkers get about 107 mg per day and people who have never had coffee get about 91 mg per day."

Those who consume more than two gourmet coffee drinks per week were asked to fill out a three-day food diary. Those who filled out the food diary consumed on average 7 drinks per week. Furthermore, researchers compared students who completed the food diary to those who did not drink coffee at all and those who did not qualify for the food diary on daily energy and sugar intake levels. Those who qualified for the food diary tended to intake more energy (on average 206 kcal more) and more sugar (on average 32g more). This higher intake in energy and sugar may lead to weight increase.