We donate 10p from every 100g jar sold straight to Save the Children. Your purchase helps give some of the poorest children in coffee growing areas of Colombia the chance of a better education. Find out more here
We’d like to raise a further £500,000 to reach our £1m target and to be able to help many more children. But we can’t do this without you.
Help us spread the word by asking your friends to swap their next purchase of instant coffee to Fair Instant. It’s that easy!
We’re proud of our Fairtrade status. Meaning we pay a fair price to our coffee producers. Our owners, Fine Foods International, were one of the first businesses in the UK to invest in Fairtrade products.
More and more people are buying Fairtrade products. So why take a step to help. It can be a simple step, like swapping your coffee to Fair Instant, or a bigger step, like asking everyone in your office to do it too.
And the good news is you don’t have to sacrifice taste as Fair Instant coffee tastes good too!
The more we read about coffee the more fascinating a subject we find it. For instance did you know that the word ‘coffee’ was at one time a term for wine?
Knowledge to us is like coffee – giving you the buzz. Why not see how good your knowledge is?
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Myth... it's the second
Coffee is the third most widely traded commodity in the world
Commodities, for you and me, are the base products that people trade world-wide. Prices change daily in line with supply and demand. The more people want and the less there is available, then the higher the price goes. Just think of gold.
The same is true of our black gold (no, not oil but coffee). It might come as a surprise, but coffee is actually the second most traded commodity worldwide.
Based on daily turnover, the most popular traded commodities, courtesy of tiptoptens.com, are;
Brazil has produced a coffee scented postage stamp
Coffee is one of Brazil's largest exports and the coffee industry is hugely important for the country. So when sales started falling in favour of Colombian coffee the authorities came up with a unique way to publicise its coffee to international markets.
In December 2001 Brazil produced a postage stamp scented with coffee, Brazil's gift to caffeine junkies everywhere. Simply rub the stamp to disintegrate the micro capsules and release the aroma of coffee!
It was believed that the smell would last between 3 and 5 years.
Fact
Instant coffee powder was invented in 1901 by Satori Kato
Water-soluble ‘instant’ coffee was first developed in Britain in 1771 but as the technology to preserve it had not yet been developed it soon disappeared. A further attempt was made in America in 1853, followed by a cake-like powdered coffee during the American Civil War. However as neither of these products could keep, they both soon disappeared.
It was left to a Japanese born American chemist, Satori Kato, to finally patent instant coffee in 1901 although the patent was not received until 1903.
Kato was also the inventor of soluble tea. Noticing his work, a U.S. coffee importer and a coffee roaster asked him to apply his dehydration methods to coffee and the world has never looked back.
Fact
The word 'coffee' was at one time a term for wine
It’s true that the Arabic word for coffee ‘Kahwah’ is also one of several ancient words for wine. This black drink, fermented from the pulp of the bean, kept the Mohammedans awake and alert during their nightly prayers, so they honored it with the name they had originally given to wine.
Although the Quran forbade the use of wine or intoxicating beverages, it was argued that coffee was a stimulant not an intoxicant, it’s qualities assisting in long nightly vigils.
By 16th Century devout Muslims argued that it was an intoxicant and wanted it banned and as a result the governor of Mecca ordered all coffee houses to be closed.
So popular was the ‘coffee’ that he was overruled by the Sultan of Cairo who had him put to death.
Coffee houses in Mecca thrived and became meeting places for intellectuals and professionals, just like in Europe a few centuries later.
Make someone a cup of coffee. Go on, you’re sticking the kettle on anyway, you might as well ask if anyone else wants one. And it’s better for the environment if you save electricity by making one big round rather than lots of separate cups. Win, win!
When it comes to health matters, coffee has often been given a bit of a bad rap in the past. Coffee is seen as the hardcore, rocket fuel of caffeine addicts in comparison to its more genteel, leisurely even healthful counterpart tea. It’s the ‘treat ‘em mean, keep ‘em’ keen tough guy of caffeinated drinks as opposed to the mild-mannered, easy-going tea boy.
As you know, for every jar of Fair Instant sold, we donate 10p to the charity Save the Children. It may sound like a drop in the ocean but all those pennies add up and it’s just one simple way to give something back, while enjoying your daily mug of coffee. So here’s another example of how, with your help, Save the Children has made a difference.
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