Caution - caffeine!

We are all used to start your day with a cup of coffee, the taste of it so we are familiar and pleasant. Cheerfulness and energy for the whole day, but what makes us time and time again to increase the portions and be a slave to this fascinating beverage. It is time to understand what makes us this caffeine addiction.

Caffeine - the most popular kind of drug in the world, and available to everyone.

affeine is found in caffeinated beans, tea leaves and cocoa seeds. Cacao seeds used for preparing chocolate. In just one cup of coffee contains four times more caffeine than a chocolate bar. Caffeine stimulates the nervous system and brain cells turned on. What happens when we use the usual dose of this drug?Well, first of all, our heart starts beating like a jet engine, thus begins pumped more blood, as soon as it hits the muscles, we become like a rabbit with a vigorous perennial charge the batteries.

But as soon quit to replace the rainbow mood comes anxiety, headaches, indigestion and a lot of different troubles. And it all started with the first drink to be addictive enough to only 350 mg of caffeine.

And what about those, you say, who would never be able to "jump" from the drug? no one is to blame, that the thirst for pleasure is in each of us. Output is always there! For those who can not overcome his weakness in itself, there is, there are many varieties of coffee without caffeine. The method of obtaining this rather simple coffee, caffeine grain evaporated until obtaining a white powder which is caffeine. He, in turn, serves as a valuable product for the pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers of soft drinks such as coca-Cola, pepsi.

No wonder the athletes participating in the Olympic Games prohibit use caffeine as it is one of the drugs prohibited. It can be explained that the muscles of an athlete getting tougher and the victory came down to him not deserved!

A little of the history of coffee

Coffee - kind of small evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Rubiaceae. Reach 12 meters in height. Leaves entire, leathery, dark green.

The flowers are regular shape, both sexes, white with a long tube and a separate five-limb collected for 3 - 7 in the leaf axils. The fruits kostochkoobraznye, more or less juicy, red or black and blue size of a large cherry. Each has two flattened fruit seeds, so-called coffee beans. Flowering and fruiting starts from the 4th, 5th year.

One year tree gives about 1 kg of grains. There are more than fifty species of coffee. It is widespread in the tropics, mainly in Arabia, Africa, Asia and South America.

One of the most famous coffee - Arabian, a drink made from beans which first began to be used by people. In the 16th - 17th century Arabia was the only country to grow coffee. In the first half of the 17th century began to drink coffee consumed in Europe.

In the 18th century, the coffee tree transported to America. Seeds are coffee sugar, protein and tannin, fatty oils, organic acids, and 0.8 - 2.43% (depending on the variety) caffeine.

Seeds for coffee beans are roasted for 25 - 30 minutes at 180 - 200 degrees Celsius, after which they acquire their taste, flavor and a pleasant brown color. Coffee also called coffee beans and drink which is produced from them.