America's Love Affair With Coffee

It's a fact that American's love their coffee; but why do they have such a love affair with it? Could it be that in just about every town or city there is a coffee shop around every other corner, or could it be that they are just addicted to the caffeine. Maybe it could be the many varieties and flavors, you can enjoy hot or cold coffee and it is readily available 24 hours a day seven days a week.

Coffee now is not the same coffee your grandparents perked on the stove-top, now we have gourmet coffees, flavored coffees, iced coffees, espressos, cappuccinos, and lattes. With so many delicious selections who can't love this heavenly beverage. When you add to that the benefits that coffee offers once can see the reason for America's love affair with coffee.

Recent studies have shown that coffee contains key antioxidants and it has also been proven that woman and men whom drink up to 6 cups of their favorite coffee a day are at lower risk factors to certain diseases (example for men would be enlarged prostate). This naturally is not why so many people love coffee, however it gives the coffee lover a good standby answer when someone tells them that coffee is not good for the body

Gourmet coffee though more expensive, can be like eating a succulent sweet desert if you find the right flavor. What has made it even more popular and loved is how one can now purchase their favorite flavored coffee at the shops or the supermarket or a specialty store for you take home and brew whenever you like in your own gourmet coffee brewer.

Recent products which have been released over the last couple of years and are highly popular are known as the individual cup coffee makers; a best seller at many department stores and online vendors are the Keurig Brewers. With these brewers you can then buy your favorite coffee flavors in single serving cups in one flavor or the variety packs, caffeinated or decaffeinated. Best selling brands and American favorites are Gloria Jean's Coffees, Green Mountain and the K-Cup. These fabulous single servicing devices allow you to brew your favorite coffee in less than two minutes. It is a perfect for your desk at home or at work. Smelling your favorite fresh brewed coffee blend can add that little jolt of energy to get you motivated to work.

It's really not hard to see why Americans' love coffee; it tastes delicious, it is good for your health and it keeps you on the go. Nothing beats the fresh aroma of a freshly brewed pot of hot coffee.