“Coffee is a magical substance that turns ‘leave me alone’ into ‘good morning honey!’.”

This is how coffeeholics love to describe coffee, as it is the most integral part of their morning, helping them to wake up for a busy work day, or even to relax at the weekend.

Here are nine facts to confirm that you have made the right choice by becoming addicted to coffee:

1. Coffee is most effective if consumed between 9:30-11:30 and 1:30 and 5:00. Forbes 

2. Simply inhaling the aroma of coffee can alter the activity of some genes in the brain, thereby reducing the effects of sleep deprivation. Livescience 

3. Coffee with added cream cools about 20% slower than plain black coffee. Modernist Cuisine

4. When you add milk to your coffee, it weakens the effect of caffeine. Modernist Cuisine

5. Finland, Norway and Iceland are the world’s biggest coffee drinkers. Telegraph

6. Brazil produces 40% of the world's coffee, which is twice as much as 2nd and 3rd place holders, Colombia and Vietnam. World Atlas

7. Coffee is the second commodity traded in the world, after oil. World Atlas

8. Many researchers found that older patients with high levels of caffeine in their blood were more likely to avoid Alzheimer's. Fox News

9. The word "coffee" entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch koffie, borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish kahve, in turn borrowed from the Arabic qahwah (قهوة). Oxford English