Did you know: how many coffee beans does a cup of coffee need?
You will be surprised to know how much raw materials are in the daily food and products.
Take the very common example of drinking coffee. An average cup of coffee needs 100 beans. If you regularly drink 1 cup every day of the year, 9 coffee trees are needed throughout the year to provide coffee beans, not to mention large amounts of water, fertilizer and manual labor to care for the farm.
In modern life, it is easy to forget the effects that have been caused to nature when not everyone directly witnesses or is close to producing most of the familiar products in everyday life.
That's why Business Insider has released nine popular foods and products and the amount of raw materials needed to make them.
Let's see how much raw material you have consumed for your needs.
1. A loaf of bread needs about 385.5g of wheat
Wheat is harvested and put into bushels (weighs about 27.2kg). According to statistics from the National Festival of Breads, a bushel can produce about 19kg of flour, enough to make about 70 white bread loaves.
2. You need 12 oranges to have an average of 1 liter of orange juice
The famous orange juice brand Tropicana of PepsiCo uses about 12 oranges per liter of orange juice. If you squeeze orange juice at home, you need 2 or 3 fruits per cup on average.
3. Need an average of 2 chickens for 12 eggs
Depending on the breed, the average hens lay between 4 and 6 eggs per week, totaling about 200 eggs per year. Thus, 2 hens are needed each week to provide 12 eggs.
4. The average men's t-shirt needs 226g cotton
Cotton fibers were harvested with a weight of 226kg, enough to produce 1,000 medium-sized men's T-shirts.
On the other hand, blue jeans need about 680g of cotton per set.
5. You need 1 or 2 agave plants for 6.62 liters of tequila
When agave is harvested to produce tequila, only take the body called piña to roast and crumble to form a liquid called tequila. Each agave harvest, harvesters usually take from 36.3kg to 90.7kg.
While the tequila production process is not published correctly, you need 1 to 2 agave plants for about 6.62 liters of tequila, according to a tequila producer who answers on Quora.
6. It takes nearly 8 liters of crude oil for 3.8 liters of gasoline
Crude oil is mined and put into barrels, each containing about 158.9 liters. The oil then undergoes a refining process, splitting into different components and then making the product we use.
After the separation process, each barrel of crude oil produced about 75.7 liters of gasoline, according to the US Energy Information Agency.
The rest of the oil is processed into diesel, jet fuel and many other petroleum products such as plastics.
7. 1 liter of bottled water needs 1.39 liters of water
According to the International Bottled Water Association, in order to produce each liter of bottled water the company often uses an average of 1.39 liters of fresh water.
Part of 0.39 liters is added for preparation, cleaning and bottling. The figure does not include water used in the production of plastic bottles.
8. Each iPhone contains 31g of aluminum
The iPhone is made from a number of metals including titanium or iron, and aluminum is the largest component because it is used to produce the outer casing.
Aluminum accounts for about 24% of iPhone volume, followed by iron with about 14%, according to Motherboard.
The rest of the iPhone contains many rare earth elements and metals like titanium, cobalt and nickel.
9. You need 9 coffee trees for year-over-year productivity to drink each cup of coffee every day of the year
Let's analyze: An average cup of coffee needs 100 beans. An average coffee tree produces 4,000 coffee beans a year, meaning you need at least 9 coffee trees to produce enough beans for each cup of coffee to drink every day of the year. In fact, a coffee tree takes at least 5 years to reach its maximum yield.
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