Monthly Archives: March 2017

At Café du Jour we usually drink our coffee in the office at our desks or in the warehouse after packing up the orders. But not everyone can be as boring as us, of course, and luckily there are videos to prove it. Take this bloke, who goes sledging with a cup of coffee in his hands — totally normal stuff, right. But when you chuck your well-earned coffee over your shoulder (what a waste...) at -32 degrees, this is what happens...

The coffee seems to instantly ‘explode’ in mid-air. That’s because the hot coffee evaporates very rapidly in the cold, dry air. Either way, it makes for some pretty striking footage.

Coffee and sport are often mentioned in the same breath. Researchers at the University of Georgia looked into the connection. Research looked at caffeine and sporting performance. Simon Higgins studied 600 scientific articles on the effects of coffee. He focused on the links between caffeine consumption and athletes’ endurance. In nine follow-up experiments, in which participants had to cycle or run, he looked at the endurance levels of the test subjects. Higgins found that 3 to 7 milligrams of caffeine per kilo of body weight was linked to an increase in the participants’ endurance of 24%. A cup of coffee contains roughly 75 to 150 milligrams of caffeine. According to Higgins, more research should be carried out into coffee as a source of caffeine. He says the effects of caffeine from coffee can be just as high as the effects of pure caffeine, while the general assumption is that they’re lower. Via DeMorgen and Uga.edu