Boiling Point: Battle of the Beverages

Boiling Point: Battle of the Beverages Tea and coffee. The bean and leaf have beef. Your preferred drink for the office grind is serious business, and when you can't take the strain any longer, heated arguments are bound to break out in the breakroom. Kettle the score with these facts and figures. TEA Legend dates tea to 2737 BC, when the wind caught some leaves which fell into Chinese emperor Shen Nung's drinking water. He decided he liked the flavour. In verifiable history, genuine tea containers have been found dating back to the 206 BC Han Dynasty. ORIGINS COFFEE Around 800AD Kaldi the Ethiopian goatherder, allegedly discovered his goats dancing gleefully around a coffee plant. After trying the beans for himself, he was dancing too. Ironically coffee was slow to develop, first mentions of the beans being used in a beverage date to around 1000 AD in Arabia. WORLD CULTURE COFFEE TEA Coffee (75-100%) Tea (75-100%) Coffee (50-75%) Tea (50-75%) The world is almost evenly divided by tea in the East and coffee in the West. The major exceptions are Thailand, The Philippines and South Korea, who choose coffee; and Britain, Ireland, Bolivia, and Chile, who take tea. TEA In China, tea According to one survey, 50% of Britons In Morocco The Southern stereotype is true. 85% of tea leaves eaten mint tea is (and pooped out) by pandas are a luxury. prepared by the head of drink tea with consumed in biscuits. the household. America is iced. COFFEE Italy has 100,000 coffee bars to Thai elephants 'produce' Black Ivory coffee the In Sweden it's a treat to dip New York consumes serve 60million almost 7 times finnish people, the largest per capita ratio. more coffee than other Leipäjuusto cheese into same way pandas make tea in China. American Cities. coffee. TEA COFFEE Making a cuppa at home will cost you: 160 11 supermarket teabags supermarket instant servings at £195 = 17p per mug. at £195 = 12p per drink. 2.27 litres of supermarket I milk at £l is 75 2.27 litres of supermarket milk for £l at 50ml per mug (45 servings) cups with 30ml of milk, totalling 13p per comes to 2.5p per cup of tea 3.9p per mug 2.2p per mug. cup. At their current Kensington prices, (excluding any offers) a Grande Starbucks will cost you: £693.50 if you buy one cup a day for a whole year £949 if you buy one cup a day for a whole year £190 £2.60 INDUSTRY FACTS TEA 1,806,173 tonnes exported in 2012. The 2nd largest packaged beverage to market (after bottled water) in 2014. Just under 300 billion litres brewed globally in 2014, compared to coffee's 175 billion litres. COFFEE 8,038,504 tonnes exported in 2012. The 4th largest packaged beverage to market (after carbonated drinks) in 2014. Over 95 US$ Billion 2014 retail value vs tea's 43 US$ Billion 2014. TEA COFFEE HEALTH FACTS Caffeine- llmg Caffeine- 40mg Calories-1 Calories- O (plus 15 in 30ml of 2% milk) (plus 26 in 50ml of 2% milk) Tea has been claimed to: Coffee has been claimed to: • Strengthen the immune system, bones, and teeth. Reduce the risk of a Boost energy levels (obviously). Aid the burning of fat. Boost physical performance. Contain a range of heart attacks, Parkinson's, and several cancers. • Protect the skin from UV rays. vitamins. · Aid diabetics to process Protect the liver. Lower the risk of sugar. Boost exercise endurance, brain power, Alzheimer's, dementia, and depression. and learning capacity. 0od In a recent UK poll, coffee drinkers earned an extra £2,160 .But tea drinkers were found to be friendlier, with 84% to be 'team players', compared to just 74% of coffee drinkers. ming a year compared to their tea drinking counterparts. Sources: www.tea.co.uk www.cheapflights.co.uk express www.nationalgeographic.com www.data.massivehealth.com VENDING www.healthland.time.com www.statista.com www.authoritynutrition.com www.fatsecret.co.uk "Refreshing People' www.investmentwatchblog.com www.faostat3.fao.org www.economist.com www.ico.org www.expressvending.co.uk www.hotelclub.com www.teausa.com www.worldoftea.org www.whenonearth.net www.itoen.com От Co b00