Here we have an excellent infographic from the coffee brewing website called Dripped Coffee that provides information about why your brain craves coffee. The infographic starts off with a couple of quick facts and then goes on to provide the reasons such as coffee boosts energy, coffee reduces suicide risk and depression and coffee strengthens DNA.
Yazoo Healthier Milk Drinks
Yazoo Chocolate and Strawberry drinks are now available with no added sugar, insipired by the way the body breaks down milk. The enzyme ‘Lactase’, which occurs naturally in our bodies, is added to milk before it is used to make Yazoo. This enzyme splits Lactose in the milk into two separate sugars, Glucose and Galactose, which tastes four times sweeter than the Lactose alone. The sweetness of the drink is maintained without adding sugar, making it healthier all round.
Think your coffee looks cute with a leaf on top? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Sure, any decent barista these days can top your latte with a love heart, but how many can create actual, intricate art in the foam that tops your hot drink? In recent years, coffee consumption across the globe has massively increased. As well as smelling good and keeping us going, everyone’s favourite caffeinated drink has brought us an entire new art form: latte art. Latte art is so competitive that it has become an international sport, with baristas from all over the world taking part in the annual Latte Art Championships. We’ve picked out some of the most stunning examples of latte art from around the world. Be prepared to be amazed (and quite possibly disappointed, next time you pop to your local cafe for a very flat flat white).
A Splash of Colour
Las Vegas barista Mason Salisbury really ups the game of the traditional latte leaf by carefully introducing a myriad of vibrant colours in the form of completely-edible vegetable dyes. The result is psychedelic coffee-toppers in eye-poppingly bright colours.
The Floral
The most popular latte art design is still the leaf, but some clever coffee-makers can go a step further than that and create frothy flowers on top of coffee. Renowned South Korean latte artist Lee Kang-Bin takes things a step further by introducing food dyes to create bountiful botanical displays. In Cafe Carol Mel, Singapore, it’s not just lattes that get the floral treatment, but taro and matcha teas. Both drinks already boast pastel hues that lend themselves well to the delicate cherry blossom designs.
Animals
Latte artists can draw leaves and flowers in foam, so while we’re on the subject of nature, how about animals? Of course they can! Top latte artists are capable of creating all manner of creatures, with incredibly intricate detail, on top of hot drinks.
3D Animals
Just when it looked as though latte art couldn’t get any more spectacular, artists happened upon the idea of creating 3-dimensional latte art – latte art sculptures, if you like. One of the most talented latte sculptors is Japanese barista Kazuki Yamamoto, whose designs are nothing short of mind blowing. Using the fluffy foam to build volume, Yamamoto can make it look like an adorable seal is bathing in your drink, or Snoopy is taking a nap atop your cup. It’s not just cute and cuddly animals that make it into latte art, though: Taiwanese barista Chang Kuei Fang of my Cofi cafe can even make it look as though there’s a cockroach scuttling across the top of your coffee, which is impressive, if not very appetising.
Pet Portraits
There’s more! Chang Keui Fang (the lady who created the cappuccino cockroach) specialises in using latte foam and chocolate to make breathtakingly-accurate portraits of people’s pets. At My Cofi cafe, customers can order custom-made coffee featuring 3D images of their furry or feathered friends.
Portraits of People
If baristas can create such uncanny animals in latte form, surely they can do the same with humans? Yes they can, especially Michael Breach. This New York barista painstakingly carves lines and shading into coffee tops using a toothpick, creating stunning portraits not just of movie stars and celebrities, but the drinkers of the coffee. So much more impressive than having your name scrawled on the side of your cup with a Sharpie.
Fine Art
It’s clear from looking at these spectacular examples that latte art truly is a new art form. Some baristas are so skilled at it that they have recreated famous paintings from the likes of Munch, Dali and Van Gogh in coffee froth. Lee Kang-Bin even paints his in glorious technicolour. Just don’t expect to see any of them framed and in a gallery.
Disney
As well as masterpieces from famous painters, Lee Kang-Bin uses food dye to recreate a more modern art form: stills from animated films. He picks out the most beloved characters from Disney films and carefully paints them atop lattes that are way to sweet to sip.
Can vending machines make latte art?
All of this is pretty awesome, but it was made by very talented human beings. There’s no way a vending machine could top its coffees with clever art. Is there? Actually, there is. In Japan, the Yojiya Cafe Selection machine produces on-the-go hot drinks complete with an impressive foamy top. OK, it’s the company logo and not massively elaborate, but surely it paves the way for things to come…
Stevia is a zero-calorie sugar replacement made from the stevia plant. It has been created to have the same sweetness as sugar, have the same gram throw and match the bulk density of sugar too. Vending operators can replace the vending machine sugar selection with Stevia without making any changes.
6g of sugar = 23 calories
6g of Stevia = 0 calories
The stevia plant is a green, leafy plant that is native to South America. Refined Stevia sweetener does not resemble the plant. Stevia sweetener is made from a refined version of the plant’s isolated sweet compounds, ‘stevioside’ and ‘rebaudioside A’. Sometimes Stevia is confused with Truvia®, but Truvia® is a blend of compounds and is a brand name of the Cargill Corporation.
Here is an excellent infographic designed by a guy called David Wildish that provides illustrations of inside popular chocolate bars and treats in the UK. The piece includes illustrations of a peanut butter cup, Twix, Bounty, Mars bar, Snickers and plenty more.
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Here is an excellent infographic from the video content monetization website called Anyclip that is full of information about the Coca Cola brand being featured in popular movies. The infographic starts of by providing the number of Coca Cola appearances a year and then goes on to a timeline from 1930 to 2012 with information about some of the top films that Coca Cola has been featured in as well as a comparison to Pepsi at the end.
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Here is a fantastic infographic from the people at the luxury hotels website called Fairmont providing lots of information about the health benefits of drinking tea vs coffee. Check out how many tonnes off tea and coffee are produced each year, the top tea and coffee drinking countries around the World, the impacts of caffeine and more by reading this interesting piece.
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Here we have an interesting infographic that we found on the manufacturing news website called The Manufacturer that provides lots of information about the history of vending machines. The 1st part of the infographic is a timeline which starts off in the 1st century A.D. when the first vending device was created to dispense spiritually purifying water and goes all the way through to 2009 when industrial dispensing machines appeared. The 2nd part of the infographic offers a few vending machine statistics.
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Here we have a good looking and entertaining infographic from the people at the popular technology website called Tech in Asia that is packed with information about the most bizarre vending machines from Tokyo, Japan. Learn about what a vending machine is, the number of vending machines in Japan, which types of vending machines are the most popular and plenty more by checking out this piece.
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Here we have an amazing infographic from the popular comics website called The Oatmeal that is packed with fascinating facts about coffee. Learn about how people 1st noticed the effects of caffeine, how coffee was originally eaten, the bean belt where coffee grows, why coffee was banned in England and plenty more by checking out this piece.
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