- A Coffee bean is not actually a bean - it is the seed in the coffee berry.
- The world’s Second most valuable traded commodity in coffee (Oil is #1).
- The average American adult consumes an average of 26.7 gallons of coffee per year, which amounts to about 400 cups.
- The Most Expensive coffee comes from berries that go through the digestive tract of the Kopi Luwak, a small cat-sized Indonesian animal. The “beans” are then harvested from the animal’s waste, cleaned, roasted and sold for $100 to $600 per pound.
Watch this hilarious scene from “The Bucket List” with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.
Animal Planet also documents the process in this short YouTube video: http://youtu.be/hK5-WQqOu58