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Coffee beans were chewed raw for centuries in Ethiopia and Yemen. An excavation in the Ethiopian highlands where coffee grows wild indicates human gatherers have been eating coffee berries over a hundred thousand years. The fleshy pulp surrounding the coffee bean in Ethiopian coffee has higher sugar content. Being sweet, being nutritious, and seeds, nuts and berries must have been generally eaten by humans some speculate for over a million years. Ugandans were noticed chewing dried coffee beans when the first explorers from Europe were searching for the origins of the Nile River. Green coffee beans were ground up and mixed with fat to macerate, then made into small balls, which were eaten by travelers on long journeys. Some say this is the first trail mix whereas the raisins. Stories in the Southern Arabian Peninsula known as Yemen where Europeans first found the coffee plant cultivated seem to support the coffee bean being traded as early as 800 BC. Facts and many stories support trade between Yemen and Ethiopia during this time. Knowing how eating the coffee berry reacts on people, it would be logical that those early traders would attempt to trade for this item. Additionally, evidence does not support the coffee plant growing wild in Yemen but already under cultivation instead. Although, it is possible that a large bird or storm could have carried and deposited the coffee berry that far away, although not likely. No specific historic event is remembered causing coffee export to Southern Arabia but Ethiopia did invaded Southern Arabia in 525 AD. Some speculated that coffee could have been introduced to the Arabians at this time. Many historians say coffee may have been introduced into Arabia by slave traders who raided Africa in early1000 BC. Snippets which strongly supporting theories that coffee spread very early in the civilized world trade are coffee's affect on the Arabian people's culture, agriculture, Trade practices and old Arabic stories.
COUNTRY CULTIVATION DATE (AD)
- Yemen 520
- Turkey 1480
- India 1585
- Java 1696
- Surinam 1718
- Martinique 1720
- Brazil 1729
- Jamaica 1730
- Cuba 1744
- Guatemala 1748
- Costa Rica 1778
- Venezuela 1782
- Mexico 1790
- Colombia 1792
- Hawaii 1820
- Salvador 1840
- Central Africa 1870
- Kenya 1890
- Tanzania 1891
- East Africa 1901
- Madagascar 1908
- West Indies 1912
- Angola 1912
- Vietnam 1915
