As a site that specialises in tea, you might be surprised to see anything related to coffee here. But it’s a hot drink that the world loves almost as much as tea; it’s a pick-me-up, and according to some research, it could also be good for you.
We’re tea people, there’s no doubt about that, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy a little coffee every now and then, and it definitely doesn’t mean we can’t provide some surprising facts about this drink to our readers.
This section of the Shelgo Tea website contains all of the posts that we have written about coffee—and we promise to be gentle on this long-time tea-rival! Our coffee articles include everything from extensive guides on the different types of bean and blend, to the benefits, dangers, side effects, and more. If it relates to coffee and is of interest to our readers, and if our writers have written about it, then you will find it here.
A quick Google search for coffee alternatives will return a deluge of suggestions ranging from hot water and lemon to hot juice. But what about coffee alternatives that actually taste like coffee? Substituting one vice for another is much easier...
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Humans have cultivated and consumed coffee for at least 400 years. There are stories suggesting that we knew of its energising effects as far back as the 9th century, but most of these were written hundreds of years after they were supposed to...
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Coffee gets a bad rep and is considered tea’s unhealthier cousin. It has more caffeine, fewer antioxidants, and studies suggest that excessive consumption can lead to an early demise. It’s all pretty scary stuff, but it’s also nonsense, for the...
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