What’s inside your average cupe of joe? Wired breaks it down for us. Let’s start with the obvious, water and caffeine. But did you know about the traces of 2-ethylphenol, which otherwise doubles as a cockroach pheromone? Or how about dimethyl disulfide, which has industrial uses in oil refineries? And acetylmethylcarbinol? It gives the coffee its pleasant, buttery odor. Want to keep contemplating coffee? Check out the related resources below:
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
Everything You Wanted to Know About Coffee in Three Minutes
Those are some good tasting chemicals.
Like, WOW! – with such a variety of components, no wonder it’s always an interesting thing to drink. :-)nHow come it’s we Aussies disseminating this stuff?