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.

We’ve already told you that coffee is good for you. Coffee has plenty of mental and physical benefits. The University of Georgia has now added even more evidence to back that up. Research shows that a cup of coffee has a positive effect on your 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 increased the participants’ endurance by no less than 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