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(POSTED: April 1, 2006)
Coffee
Just about everyone is drinking coffee these days. It's the one beverage that fits every social situation. Morning, afternoon or evening, for casual get-togethers or formal affairs, coffee is often the beverage of choice. It can be enjoyed at home with the family, in a café, coffee shop or on a sidewalk patio with friends. Coffee is a delicious alternative to wine or beer, it is conducive to conversation and community.
Did you know…
Coffee is a beverage made from coffee beans, which are the seeds of the coffee cherry. The coffee bush, which produces the cherries, grows around the world in a narrow subtropical belt between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn at elevations varying between 2,200 and 6.000 feet above sea level.
Each coffee bush on average produces approximately one to two pounds of roasted coffee per year. It takes a young coffee bush four or five years to produce its first crop.
Coffee is the number one beverage choice of adult Canadians. 81% of Canadians drink coffee occasionally and over 63% of Canadians over the age of 18 drink coffee on a daily basis.
For several decades coffee has been the favourite beverage of adult Canadians. Other than tap water, it is more popular than tea, milk, beer, fruit juices and soft drinks.
Medium roast coffees dominate the breakfast market, accounting for 56% of coffee consumed at that time of day.
Canadian coffee drinkers have an average of 2.6 cups of coffee per day.
Approximately 9% of coffee drinkers drink decaffeinated coffee on a regular basis.
 In terms of what they put into their cup of coffee, 20% of Canadians like their coffee black, 7% with sugar only, 33% with cream or milk only and 40% like both dairy and a sweetener.
The Coffee Association of Canada commissioned the Canadian Coffee Drinking Study. The results are based on telephone interviews on 2,500 Canadians 18 years and older.
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