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Coffee Still OK In Pregnancy

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Tweet A new study has emerged that tell us it is fine for pregnant women who love their morning coffee to be able to consume a moderate amount of caffeine at maximum of 200 milligrams per day. The new findings could bring some elation to women who suffer from fatigue and really miss that latte [...]

Free Wi-Fi At Starbucks Could Mean Good News And Bad News

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Tweet Recently McDonald’s made it’s Wi-Fi Internet service available free in around 12,000 locations in the United States.  This trend is has been growing over the last few years, and now Starbucks has decided to go in on the deal in its locations in the United States and Canada. Starbucks hopes to encourage patrons to [...]

Passion Coffee May Be Bad For Your Health

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Tweet When visiting the Magic Power Coffee website you will find a sparkling cup of joe underneath a couple who apparently just had a drink, but what the enticing page doesn’t tell the reader is that the FDA has put an official warning out to consumers that this love concoction could spell disaster for your [...]

Organic Coffee On The Rise Despite A Bad Economy

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Tweet Producers of coffee need to take notice of a growing demand for Fair Trade organic beans.  In 2009 alone the market sales were at 1.4 billion dollars, which blows away the standard coffee competition. This is evidenced in the last four years where organic coffee demand has increased by 21 percent on average, compared [...]

Seattle’s Best Coffee Ultimate Makeover

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Tweet Since it’s small beginnings in 1970 Seattle’s Best Coffee company has been serving up fresh brewed coffee to thousands of coffee drinkers in cafes, stores, airports, and so on.  Now that it is a part of the Starbuck’s corporation since 2003 the organization has been given a completely revamped logo, which is advertised on [...]

Starbucks Flavored Coffee Coming Soon To A Store Near You

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Tweet About sixty percent of Starbucks customers purchase flavored coffee drinks, which has spurred the company to take action and begin packaging flavored coffee in grocery stores beginning this June, just in time for summer iced coffee fun. The new flavors are quite familiar to current Starbucks drinkers: caramel, cinnamon, and vanilla.  Any other flavors [...]

A Cup That Brews Your Coffee

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Tweet Coffee shops are trying a new form of coffee making on their customers with the use of SmartCup Xpress, a revolutionary way to get your pick-me-up on the go with a gourmet and robust flavor. One store in New York City, BKoffie, uses the Xpress cups to sell their delicious coffee from African beans.  [...]

Drinking Coffee Could Mean Lower Uterine Cancer Risk

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Tweet If you are a woman who drinks at least two and a half cups of coffee a day there is good news for you from the Mayo Clinic.  You could be decreasing your risk of getting uterine cancer. Their study involved 20,000 women and compared those who drank two and a half cups of [...]

Coffee Cup – Can Yours be Affecting the Flavor of Your Coffee?

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Tweet   How one drinks their cup of Joe is a matter of taste, choice, or habit. Does it really matter what kind of cup you choose to drink your coffee from?  The coffee cup comes in many shapes and sizes, we all have our favorites. Most of us have a travel mug for the [...]

Illy – Coffee As A Science

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Tweet   Born to a Hungarian-Italian chocolate maker Francesco Illy, Ernesto was destined to perfect the cup of coffee.  Francesco, an officer in WWI, came to Italy and created the famous Illy brand in 1933. Ernesto majored in Chemistry at the University of Bologna and spent his entire life creating the perfect cup of coffee [...]