21St Cup

The big spenders☕
The “Big Four” coffee roasting companies – Kraft, P&G, Sara Lee and Nestle – buy about 50% of the coffee produced worldwide.
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"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."
Horace Mann✨
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"Life is a cake and love is the icing on top of it. Without love, it becomes difficult to swallow life."
Mehek Bassi✨
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Hawaii is the only American state that grows coffee☕
Good coffee growing conditions are dependent on variables such as high altitudes, tropical climates and rich soil. Therefore, despite all the rich and diverse landscapes of the Continental United States, Hawaii is the only state suitable for growing coffee plants. It has been producing coffee even before it was a state. (Recently, though, farms in California did start growing coffee bushes!)
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"The beauty of defeat is that when you fall, you fly."
Lionel Suggs✨
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THEY ARE ALL ONE🌱
There are several different types including black, oolong, green, and white. They all come from the same plant, Camellia sinensis, but the difference lies in how the leaves are treated after they are harvested.
All tea leaves are withered, rolled, and heated. Different varieties are created depending on the additional steps, or in the timing of the steps, that are taken before the leaves are packaged.

Black- the most commonly consumed (about 84 percent of totals worldwide), it is also the most processed – but this doesn’t refer to the use of unhealthy sugary or artificial additives. Rather, the leaves are left to ferment until they turn black, then dried and packaged.

Oolong- follows a similar process to black tea, however, each individual stage is not as long.

Green- not put through any sort of fermentation process, it is either steamed or pan fried.

White- the least processed of the four. Picked earlier in the season and made from younger leaves, white tea leaves are typically only left to dry briefly in the sun before being prepared for packaging.
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Second in the world☕
Coffee is consumed in such great quantities, it is the world’s 2nd largest traded commodity, surpassed only by crude oil. It is our most beloved beverage after water. It’s worth well over $100 billion worldwide.
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"It is both tragic and strange that people do not value every breath, every smile and every act of love. Life is fleeting, and very much taken for granted."
Wayne Gerard Trotman✨
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