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<div>Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored,=
bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, pr=
imarily due to its caffeine content. It has the highest sales in the world =
market for hot drinks.[2]</div><div></div><div></div><div>The seeds of the =
Coffea plant's fruits are separated to produce unroasted green coffee beans=
. The beans are roasted and then ground into fine particles typically steep=
ed in hot water before being filtered out, producing a cup of coffee. It is=
usually served hot, although chilled or iced coffee is common. Coffee can =
be prepared and presented in a variety of ways (e.g., espresso, French pres=
s, caff=C3=A8 latte, or already-brewed canned coffee). Sugar, sugar substit=
utes, milk, and cream are often added to mask the bitter taste or enhance t=
he flavor.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div=
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3HHb5UvW </div><div></div><div></div><div>Though coffee is now a global com=
modity, it has a long history tied closely to food traditions around the Re=
d Sea. The earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking as the modern beve=
rage appears in modern-day Yemen in southern Arabia in the middle of the 15=
th century in Sufi shrines, where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewe=
d in a manner similar to how it is now prepared for drinking.[3] The coffee=
beans were procured by the Yemenis from the Ethiopian Highlands via coasta=
l Somali intermediaries, and cultivated in Yemen. By the 16th century, the =
drink had reached the rest of the Middle East and North Africa, later sprea=
ding to Europe.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The two most commonly grown=
coffee bean types are C. arabica and C. robusta.[4] Coffee plants are cult=
ivated in over 70 countries, primarily in the equatorial regions of the Ame=
ricas, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Africa. As of 2023[upda=
te], Brazil was the leading grower of coffee beans, producing 35% of the wo=
rld's total. Green, unroasted coffee is traded as an agricultural commodity=
. Despite sales of coffee reaching billions of dollars worldwide, farmers p=
roducing coffee beans disproportionately live in poverty. Critics of the co=
ffee industry have also pointed to its negative impact on the environment a=
nd the clearing of land for coffee-growing and water use. The global coffee=
industry is massive and worth $495.50 billion as of 2023.[5] Brazil, Vietn=
am, and Colombia are the top exporters of coffee beans as of 2023.</div><di=
v></div><div></div><div>The word coffee entered the English language in 158=
2 via the Dutch koffie, borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish kahve (=D9=82=D9=
=87=D9=88=D9=87), borrowed in turn from the Arabic qahwah (=D9=82=D9=8E=D9=
=87=D9=92=D9=88=D9=8E=D8=A9).[6] Medieval Arab lexicographers traditionally=
held that the etymology of qahwah meant 'wine', given its distinctly dark =
color, and was derived from the verb qahiya (=D9=82=D9=8E=D9=87=D9=90=D9=8A=
=D9=8E), 'to have no appetite'.[7] The word qahwah most likely meant 'the d=
ark one', referring to the brew or the bean; qahwah is not the name of the =
bean, which are known in Arabic as bunn and in Cushitic languages as b=C5=
=ABn. Semitic languages had the root qhh, 'dark color', which became a natu=
ral designation for the beverage. Its cognates include the Hebrew qehe(h) (=
'dulling') and the Aramaic qahey ('give acrid taste to').[7] Although etymo=
logists have connected it with a word meaning "wine", it is also thought to=
be from the Kaffa region of Ethiopia.[8]</div><div></div><div></div><div>T=
here are multiple anecdotal origin stories which lack evidence. In a common=
ly repeated legend, Kaldi, a 9th-century Ethiopian goatherd, first observed=
the coffee plant after seeing his flock energized by chewing on the plant.=
[3] This legend does not appear before 1671, first being related by Antoine=
Faustus Nairon, a Maronite professor of Oriental languages and author of o=
ne of the first printed treatises devoted to coffee, De Saluberrima potione=
Cahue seu Cafe nuncupata Discurscus (Rome, 1671), indicating the story is =
likely apocryphal.[10][11][3] Another legend attributes the discovery of co=
ffee to a Sheikh Omar. Starving after being exiled from Mokha, Omar found b=
erries. After attempting to chew and roast them, Omar boiled them, which yi=
elded a liquid that revitalized and sustained him.[12]</div><div></div><div=
></div><div>The earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking or knowledge =
of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century in the account=
s of Ahmed al-Ghaffar in Yemen,[3] where coffee seeds were first roasted an=
d brewed in a similar way to how it is prepared now. Coffee was used by Suf=
i circles to stay awake for their religious rituals.[13] Accounts differ on=
the origin of the coffee plant before its appearance in Yemen. From Ethiop=
ia, coffee could have been introduced to Yemen via trade across the Red Sea=
.[14] One account credits Muhammad Ibn Sa'd for bringing the beverage to Ad=
en from the African coast,[15] other early accounts say Ali ben Omar of the=
Shadhili Sufi order was the first to introduce coffee to Arabia.[15][16] A=
ccording to al Shardi, Ali ben Omar may have encountered coffee during his =
stay with the Adal king Sadadin's companions in 1401.</div><div></div><div>=
</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>By the 16th century,=
coffee had reached the rest of the Middle East and North Africa.[18] The f=
irst coffee seeds were smuggled out of the Middle East by Sufi Baba Budan f=
rom Yemen to India during the time. Before then, all exported coffee was bo=
iled or otherwise sterilized. Portraits of Baba Budan depict him as having =
smuggled seven coffee seeds by strapping them to his chest. The first plant=
s from these smuggled seeds were planted in Mysore.</div><div></div><div></=
div><div>The thriving trade between Venice and North Africa and the Middle =
East (back then Ottoman Empire) brought many goods, including coffee, to th=
e Venetian port. From Venice, it was introduced to the rest of Europe. Coff=
ee became more widely accepted after it was deemed a Christian beverage by =
Pope Clement VIII in 1600, despite appeals to ban the "Muslim drink". The f=
irst European coffee house opened in Venice in 1647.[20]</div><div></div><d=
iv></div><div>The Dutch East India Company was the first to import coffee o=
n a large scale.[21] The Dutch later grew the crop in Java and Ceylon.[22] =
The first exports of Indonesian coffee from Java to the Netherlands occurre=
d in 1711.[23]</div><div></div><div></div><div>Through the efforts of the B=
ritish East India Company, coffee also became popular in England. In a diar=
y entry of May 1637, John Evelyn recorded tasting the drink at Oxford in En=
gland, where it had been brought by a student of Balliol College from Crete=
named Nathaniel Conopios of Crete.[24][25] Oxford's Queen's Lane Coffee Ho=
use, established in 1654, is still in existence today. Coffee was introduce=
d in France in 1657 and in Austria and Poland after the 1683 Battle of Vien=
na, when coffee was captured from supplies of the defeated Turks.[26]</div>=
<div></div><div></div><div>When coffee reached North America during the Col=
onial period, it was initially not as successful as in Europe, as alcoholic=
beverages remained more popular. During the Revolutionary War, the demand =
for coffee increased so much that dealers had to hoard their scarce supplie=
s and raise prices dramatically; this was also due to the reduced availabil=
ity of tea from British merchants,[27] and a general resolution among many =
Americans to avoid drinking tea following the 1773 Boston Tea Party.[28] Af=
ter the War of 1812, during which Britain temporarily cut off access to tea=
imports, the Americans' taste for coffee grew.</div><div></div><div></div>=
<div>During the 18th century, coffee consumption declined in Britain, givin=
g way to tea drinking. The latter beverage was simpler to make and had beco=
me cheaper with the British conquest of India and the tea industry there.[2=
9] During the Age of Sail, seamen aboard ships of the British Royal Navy ma=
de substitute coffee by dissolving burnt bread in hot water.[30]</div><div>=
</div><div></div><div>The Frenchman Gabriel de Clieu took a coffee plant to=
the French territory of Martinique in the Caribbean in the 1720s,[31] from=
which much of the world's cultivated arabica coffee is descended. Coffee t=
hrived in the climate and was conveyed across the Americas.[32] Coffee was =
cultivated in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) from 1734, and by 1788 it supplied=
half the world's coffee.[33] The conditions that the enslaved people worke=
d in on coffee plantations were a factor in the soon to follow Haitian Revo=
lution. The coffee industry never fully recovered there.[34] It made a brie=
f come-back in 1949 when Haiti was the world's third largest coffee exporte=
r, but declined rapidly after that.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Rapid g=
rowth in coffee production in South America during the second half of the 1=
9th century was matched by an increase in consumption in developed countrie=
s, though nowhere has this growth been as pronounced as in the United State=
s, where a high rate of population growth was compounded by doubling of per=
capita consumption between 1860 and 1920. Though the United States was not=
the heaviest coffee-drinking nation at the time (Nordic countries, Belgium=
, and the Netherlands all had comparable or higher levels of per capita con=
sumption), due to its sheer size, it was already the largest consumer of co=
ffee in the world by 1860, and, by 1920, around half of all coffee produced=
worldwide was consumed in the US.[37]</div><div></div><div></div><div>Coff=
ee has become a vital cash crop for many developing countries. Over one hun=
dred million people in developing countries have become dependent on coffee=
as their primary source of income. It has become the primary export and ba=
ckbone for African countries like Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, and Ethiopia,[40=
] as well as many Central American countries.</div><div></div><div></div><d=
iv>Several species of shrub of the genus Coffea produce the berries from wh=
ich coffee is extracted. The two main species commercially cultivated are C=
offea canephora (predominantly a form known as 'robusta') and C. arabica.[4=
1] C. arabica, the most highly regarded species, is native to the southwest=
ern highlands of Ethiopia and the Boma Plateau in southeastern Sudan and Mo=
unt Marsabit in northern Kenya.[42] C. canephora is native to western and c=
entral Subsaharan Africa, from Guinea to Uganda and southern Sudan.[43] Les=
s popular species are C. liberica, C. stenophylla, C. mauritiana, and C. ra=
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