Coffee Facts 

• Coffee beans are actually the pits of coffee cherries, and each cherry contains two coffee beans

• The coffee ‘tree’, which is in fact a variety of a tropical evergreen shrub, takes 5-6 years to mature before producing full yields
• Once mature, a tree produces approximately 4-5 pounds of cherries annually, which is the rough equivalent of one pound of roasted coffee
• When roasting, coffee beans double in size due to natural expansion of gases, but lose 20% of their weight because of the loss of gases 
• Amazingly, in North America over 650 million cups of coffee are sold per day, every day
• Coffee is the world’s 2^nd largest commodity, right behind oil