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A widely popular, often caffeinated, drink brewed from roasted beans of the coffee plant. There are a wide variety of coffees available worldwide.
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Did Voltaire drink 40-50 cups of coffee a day?
An English translation published in 1789 says:
He passed whole nights in new modelling his work; and whether it were to ward off sleep, or to reinvigorate his mind, he made an immoderate use of coffee … In the original 1778 French the passage about coffee above was:
soit pour ranimer ses sens, il fit un usage immodéré du café : cinquante tasses par jour lui suffirent à peine
However, this was disputed …
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Are there high levels of dioxin in Vietnamese coffee?
Nonetheless, the coffee trade is very nervous about the subject. The PEC group of coffee scientists looked at the issue in 2002 and reported that no problems had been found. … , been regularly feeding the dioxin in coffee story to the press. …