FOOD SHORT FACTS
Short and sweet, short facts to show off, amuse and think about:
Short fact 1:
A bathtub full of coffee
The most popular hot drink in Germany is coffee.
Each person drinks around 167 liters of it a year, enough to fill a bathtub. Tea drinkers consume around 69.1 liters, preferably herbal or fruit tea. Black, green or mate tea is drunk most in Turkey, where per capita consumption is 2.91 kg, compared to just 320g in Germany. Source: ststista.com
TEA vs COFFEE
Consumption DE – liters per capita – 2022
Short fact 2:
Pop the champagne corks
Champagne corks can shoot out of the bottle at a speed of 40 to 100 km/h. Temperature and pressure have a decisive influence. The perfect temperature is 6.7 °C, which produces the ideal pop when opened carefully. Source: ardalpha.de
Short fact 3:
In a nutshell
The most popular nuts in Germany are peanuts, almonds and hazelnuts, but the first two are not actually nuts. Peanuts are legumes and almonds are seeds. It is recommended to consume about 25-50 g every day. In Germany, 5.3 kg of nuts are eaten per capita per year. In 2011/12, however, it was only 4.3 kg.
90% of the hazelnuts harvested are processed into confectionery. Only about 10% to other foods or cosmetics. A quarter of the hazelnuts harvested worldwide end up in Ferrero products and are processed into confectionery.
Sources:
https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/5271/umfrage/pro-kopf-verbrauch-an-heissgetraenken-in-deutschland-seit-2000/
https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/386269/umfrage/pro-kopf-konsum-von-tee-weltweit-nach-laendern/
https://www.ardalpha.de/wissen/silvester-neujahr-sekt-champagner-flasche-oeffnen-kuehlen-korken-knallen-100.html
https://www.mordorintelligence.com/de/industry-reports/global-hazelnut-market
