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DON’T PANIC, IT’S ORGANIC A normal person consumes at least five cups tually get from a box of Coco puffs. To them, coffee in morning is a religious ceremony that involves the very best that the lands can give and the very best that man can make. of steaming brewed coffee a day. An average cup of coffee is enough to keep a full-grown man awake for the next four hours. A man is awake for sixteen hours in one day. In one day, a person works an average of 9 hours. He spends about four to six hours for traveling to and from his work place. An average person lives approximately one hour away from his workplace. And in between the times mentioned an average person spends about two hours drinking coffee. Also, an average person spends half of his income on food and food products; almost 25 percent of that amount goes to coffee alone. Much can be said about the average person and one of them is that he loves his coffee. Coffee is a staple in any country, in any part of the world. As a testament to that fact, all over the world you will hear a special kind of coffee beans only grown and found in that part of the world. People take pride in their coffee beans that they would brand it as one of the world’s best. People really do take coffee seriously, as they would go in to the details of canister of coffee, spending more time than looking at the nutritional table on the back of a breakfast cereal. Coffee revolution People nowadays are becoming more conscious of what they are getting. In this age of modern technology many people are getting more and more apprehensive about what they are actually buying and how it is grown or made. Eventhough people are captivated by the aroma and the taste of the wonderful brew, they are still concerned about the process by which it is grown. Organically grown coffee was the solution presented by coffee farmers to those that are keen on how natural their food (or coffee) was grown. Organic coffee is very much similar to regularly grown coffee; the only difference is the method by which the farmer grew the coffee. No pesticide, no chemical, and no other substance except the ones found in nature were used to grow the coffee beans. This kind of coffee is untouched by the ravaging effects of chemicals used to kill pests, that’s why some people say that it has therapeutic properties, but no such claim has ever been documented. They are more into how the coffee got into the canister than what kind of nutrients they ac- Victoria Napolitano 32 OpulentoCaffe.com