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Glasgow café sells ‘camelccinos’ for charity

Posted on July 23, 2019 by Sara Walker

In amongst all the ‘avocado lattes’, ‘rainbow lattes’ and ice cream serving cups, sometimes there’s a coffee trend we can really appreciate. Yes, it’s a bit of a gimmick – but it’s a gimmick with a purpose. A café in Glasgow has invented ‘camelccinos’ – yes, that’s right, coffee with added camels’ milk – to help support traders in Kenya.

Over the last few years, we’ve seen trends for adding almost anything to coffee, including yak butter, salt and various non-dairy milks such as almond. This is a new one on us, though! Camels’ milk is said to be more nutritious than cows’ milk, containing more iron and vitamin C. Although we’re not used to it here in the UK, it’s commonly drunk across Africa and the Middle East and can be used as a substitute for human breast milk as it’s nutritionally the closest type of milk. It can have health benefits, including reducing the risk of heart disease and stroke.

The initiative to bring ‘camelcchinos’ to Scotland is funded by the British government’s Department for International Development, and is being run by Mercy Corps, a global team of humanitarians with offices in Edinburgh. They’re helping female Kenyan traders to increase the shelf life of their camels’ milk, which can spoil rapidly in the high temperatures, leading to a lot of wastage. So far, the project has funded solar-powered cooling units as well as refrigerated transport. The Willow Tea Rooms, where the drink is on sale for £2.40, say it’s proved popular so far. The project aims to raise funds by donating 10 per cent of the profits from each drink, but also to highlight awareness for the traders.

Here at the Wholesale Coffee Company, we’ve got everything you need to offer your customers a fantastic cup of coffee – except, possibly, camels’ milk! Take a look at our range of coffee beans, coffee accessories and coffee supplies at www.wholesalecoffeecompany.co.uk.

UK becomes a nation of coffee drinkers

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Sara Walker

Britain might be enshrined in the view of the world as a country of tea drinkers – all bone china cups and cucumber sandwiches – but these days, the UK’s favourite drink is coffee. We get through a staggering 70 million cups of coffee every single day. Step onto any high street, and you’ll see at least one coffee shop and probably several. We’ve even just celebrated UK Coffee Week 2016 (11th to 17th April). First run in 2011, the event is a way for the UK coffee industry, including professionals and customers, to celebration the diversity of British coffee and to put something back into the global market. This year, all funds raised went to Project Waterfall to raise month for sanitation and clean water in coffee-growing communities worldwide,

Britain now has one of the most diverse coffee cultures in the world, with influences from America as well as southern Europe. With the rise in popularity of the flat white, which originated in Australia, Britain’s coffee culture is now truly global.

As, unlike Mediterranean countries, we don’t have a history of drinking coffee (until comparatively recently, instant coffee was the UK’s favourite tipple!), Britain was open to the coffee revolution when it arrived and borrowed the best drinks from around the world. The rise in home coffee machines has also led to a growth in the number of people drinking coffee, as it’s now possible to prepare a commercial-standard drink in the privacy of your own home. Good quality beans are more accessible than ever, with online ordering bringing a variety of choice that we’ve never had before.

For the discerning coffee drinker, we’ve a wide range of coffee accessories, coffee beans and everything else you need for your coffee business, all at competition wholesale prices. To find out more, take a look at our main website www.wholesalecoffeecompany.co.uk.

Can coffee help fight bowel cancer?

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Sara Walker

Here at the Wholesale Coffee Company, we love to hear good things about our favourite drink. It seems that the scientific world agree with us too, as a new study has revealed how coffee could help in the fight against bowel cancer.

The study, carried out by the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, is the first to examine the relationship between bowel cancer recurrence and caffeinated coffee. It followed the progress of 1000 men and women who had already suffered from the disease. They found that drinking four or five mugs of caffeinated coffee a day meant that the disease was around half as likely to reoccur, and reducing the amount of coffee consumed lowered the health benefits. Scientists aren’t yet clear about exactly how the caffeine works in these cases, but think that it may help to reduce inflammation by reducing the body’s need to produce insulin, which is a risk factor for cancer.

One of the researchers, Dr Charles Fuchs, said, “If you are a coffee drinker and are being treated for colon cancer, don’t stop,” before going on to add that if you didn’t already drink coffee you should discuss it with your doctor before taking it up.

As well as bowel cancel, the research appear to show that drinking around 460mg (the amount found in four to five standard mugs, depending on strength) of caffeinated coffee a day could cut the risks of several other types of cancer including postmenopausal breast cancer, cancer of the liver, melanoma and advanced prostate cancer. There’s also believed to be a link between caffeinated coffee and a reduction in the risk of type 2 diabetes.

In addition to caffeinated coffee, health professionals also recommend maintaning a healthy bod weight and diet and regular exercise to lower cancer risks.

Stock up on wholesale coffee supplies for your office or catering business at our main website, www.wholesalecoffeecompany.co.uk.

Coffee and health facts

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Sara Walker

From the highlands of Ethiopia to the smart coffee shops of London, mankind has a relationship with coffee stretching back for hundreds of years. In that time, coffee has accumulated a lot of myth and mystery. To help you separate fact from fiction, here are some health-related coffee facts about our favourite drink that you might not have known.

Coffee is a great source of antioxidants. Antioxidants can help protect your cells from premature aging of the skin, as well as fighting heart disease and other age-related problems. A daily coffee intake can boost natural antioxidant levels, helping reduce the signs of ageing.
If antioxidants is what you want from your coffee, you can choose either caffeinated or decaffeinated as both contain the same health benefits.
Coffee is a low calorie choice – in fact, a cup of black coffee contains almost no calories. Adding sugar, milk or syrup is what boosts the calorie content, so if you’re dieting switching to black coffee will help you maintain weight without any hidden calories.
Coffee boosts mental performance, helping kickstart alertness in the morning and maintain it throughout the day.
It also helps physical performance, helping endurance athletes to maintain peak performance for longer. It’s not clearly understood exactly what role caffeine plays, but it’s thought that it may help to inhibit fatigue signals from the brain.
If you’ve got a headache brewing, taking one paracetamol tablet, one ibuprofen tablet and drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee can help to stave it off as caffeine helps constrict blood vessels in your brain and reduce tension.

Drinking two cups of caffeinated coffee and a cup of decaf a day is a great way to get the health benefits. To take a look at our range of coffee beans and blends, visit our main website at www.wholesalecoffeecompany.co.uk.

The history of coffee: Coffee spreads throughout the world

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Sara Walker

As coffee became increasingly popular, the fact that it was only cultivated in Arabia began to prove a bottleneck. Arabia was keen to continue controlling the global supply, and guarded the plants jealously, but in the late 17th century the Dutch finally succeeded in getting their hands on some seedlings which they tried to plant in India. This initial attempt failed, but they managed to cultivate the plants in Batavia, on the island of Java in what is now Indonesia. The coffee plants thrived, and soon production spread to nearby islands.

In the early 18th century, the Mayor of Amsterdam gave a young coffee plant as a gift to the French king, Louis XIV, who ordered it planted in the Royal Botanical Garden in Paris. A few years later, Gabriel de Clieu, a young French naval officer, managed to take a seedling from this plant and smuggle it to Martinique where it was duly planted and thrived. That single plant is credited with being the parent of the 18 million coffee bushes that were to cover the island over the next few decades, and which also became the foundation of many of the Caribbean and South and Central American bushes.

In a little over a century, coffee was firmly established as a valuable commercial crop. Travellers and traders began to carry the seeds around the world, and new bushes were planted across the globe in different environments. By the end of the 18th century, coffee was well on its way to becoming the global crop it is today.

Here at the Wholesale Coffee Company, we’re keeping up with the proud history of coffee by supplying top quality coffee and coffee accessories at great wholesale prices. For more information, please visit www.wholesalecoffeecompany.co.uk.

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas…

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Sara Walker

It is indeed starting to look a lot like Christmas. And with it sometimes comes visitors from near, or far, and potentially a bunch of children that are expecting treats. You may be wringing your hands wondering what to serve them without having them overindulge in too much sugar, or going insane yourself whilst spending hours in the kitchen. No worries – we have found an easy to bake cake, which uses honey instead of sugar and judging from the comments people are loving it. So no worries – the kids won’t be having tantrums about the cake at least…

This gingerbread cake is also perfect for grown-ups – take a break from the Christmas craziness and settle down with cup of tea, or coffee. If you have a coffee shop it’s also the perfect Christmas cake to serve with the coffee.

So let that pre-Christmas stress go away – mix these ingredients together, put on the coffee machine and sit down to inhale the aroma of fresh roasted coffee beans and gingerbread cake. Could there be anything more heavenly?

(If you are running low on ideas for Christmas gift ideas and starting to go crazy because that as well, we also recommend you check out our shop, get yourself a big bag of the best fresh roasted coffee beans and then divide it into small little handmade bags to give away together with a beautiful coffee cup. Naturally we aren’t marketing our services or anything like that. Not at all, but if you want to buy coffee online you know where now…)

This Apple Upside Down Ginger Cake comes from The Sour Path is the Sweetest

Topping

*1/4 cup unsalted pasture butter or ghee (someone used oil with good result, but baked it for 40 mins rather than 30-35)

*1/4 cup honey

*1 Tbsp coconut aminos (not essential)

*2 large apples, peeled, wedged and thinly sliced

Gingerbread Cake

*1/4 cup unsalted pasture butter or ghee

*1/2 cup honey

*4 pastured eggs, room temperature

*2 Tbsp coconut aminos, room temperature (not essential)

*1 1/2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar

*2 cups blanched almond flour

*3/4 tsp baking soda

*1/4 tsp cloves

*2 tsp cinnamon

*2 Tbsp ginger

Directions

For topping: melt butter and honey. Add coconut aminos, stir. Pour mixture into an 8″ by 8″ square baking pan. Arrange sliced apples over butter/ honey mixture and set aside.

For cake: Warm the butter and the honey until just melted. Add room temperature eggs and other wet ingredients and mix. Combine dry ingredients together in a separate bowl, Add the dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix well. Pour over the apples. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate.

Think sweet thoughts 🙂

Coffee Cups in Coffee Shops

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Sara Walker

Maybe you are setting up a coffee shop, or looking to entertain your guests in style. Whatever the occasion one thing is for sure: how you present things alters how people perceive them. People feel better and think things taste better if they are beautifully presented.

If you are setting up a coffee shop paying extra for nice china probably doesn’t sound wonderful to your ears, but it may pay off in the future, if it’s matching an equally well thought through interior decor that makes clients feel at home. If you have the white standard cups that every other coffee shop uses no one will pay attention. If, on the other hand, you have something beautiful and unique, people will remember it. Of course it can’t be so expensive it ruins your budget, nor so frail that it breaks by the slightest touch.

When you choose your china, and for that matter the interior decor, set your creative juices free and dare to have some fun with it! Just bear in mind to double check how many others agree with your design as by the end of the day clients need to like it as well, not just you.

We also have to mention that if you are setting up a coffee shop we offer fresh roasted coffee beans, green coffee beans (if you are roasting yourself) and various other supplies through our shop at wholesale prices. Nothing better than self marketing and all that. Ahem.

A Winter Kick

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Sara Walker

It’s winter and what’s more perfect than adding spice to your food? This Mexican chocolate cake is perfect as it does just that. What’s more it’s not using sugar, but rather honey and molasses (hooray!). It makes us think it’s almost healthy. In moderation anyway.

We all know that when you couple cacao with coffee you can get a real kick. Add a bit of something sweet and you will be running for hours straight. In other words: great on a cold, wintery day when the sun is as absent as the heat that normally goes with it. If you light a candle when serving it you might truly get the lift you need to the day (just make sure to have your green juice and do your yoga practice first and all that jazz. Ahem).

So we found you all a spicy, chocolate cake that will match our fresh ground coffee beans perfectly. We are always looking for that – things to match with our coffee, so if you have any ideas, you can always shoot us an email! Furthermore, of course, as always remember you can buy coffee online through our shop. Perfect if you need a lot of coffee and don’t want to carry.

Mexican Chocolate Coffee Cake by the Paleo Mom

Ingredients:

6 Eggs
½ cup Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, melted
1/3 cup + 1 Tbsp Coconut Flour
1/3 cup Cacao Powder
3 oz Unsweetened Chocolate, melted (100%)
½ cup Blackstrap Molasses
½ cup Honey
2 tsp Vanilla Extract
½ tsp Salt
½ tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
½ tsp Cayenne Pepper, to taste

1.    Preheat oven to 325F. Line 5”X9” loaf pan with wax paper. Grease wax paper with coconut oil.
2.    Sift cocoa, coconut flour, cinnamon, cayenne, salt and baking soda into a small bowl.
3.    In a food processor or blender, combine eggs, honey, molasses, and vanilla. Pulse a few times to beat together. Add melted coconut oil and chocolate and process/blend for 1 minute.
4.    Add dry ingredients to food processor, and pulse to combine.
5.    Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and bake for 1 hour (not a very forgiving cake if you burn it, so you might want to test for doneness with a toothpick at the 55 minute mark).
6.    Let cool completely in the pan. Remove from pan and carefully remove wax paper. Enjoy!

Raw Chocolate Truffles for Your Coffee

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Sara Walker

Raw chocolate truffles for your coffee is quite a treat and a healthy one at that. Naturally, if you want to keep it healthy you shouldn’t over indulge – one truffle twice a day is plenty. Although for Christmas you may want a few more…

What makes these raw truffles healthier than regular truffles is the use of raw ingredient which contain more antioxidants. Cacao contains some of the highest levels of antioxidants in the world, so when raw it’s truly a super food. Cacao is also a stimulant, which is why it’s rumoured to be an aphrodisiac. Especially when raw cacao can be very potent, so if you combine it with coffee you are likely to get a real kick. For the same reason you shouldn’t indulge though, nor eat it close to bedtime.

We find this the perfect treat to have with your coffee. Our fresh roasted coffee beans combined with raw chocolate is truly scrumptious. We love treats here at the Wholesale Coffee Co., but we don’t necessarily want to eat too much sugar, so keeping it to a truffle rather than eating an entire muffin is great. Oh and just so you know – coffee beans contain a whole lot of antioxidants too (if nowhere near what cacao contains).

We sourced this perfect match for coffee at the Alkaline Sisters.

Raw Hazelnut Truffles
Yield: Approx 20 truffles
1 1/2 cups raw cacao powder
1/3 to 1/2 cup organic agave syrup (adjust to your liking)
3 drops liquid stevia-optional
1/4 tsp ground vanilla or alcohol free liquid vanilla
pinch of Himalayan salt
1/2 cup raw hazelnuts soaked approx 2-3 hours, drained
1/4 cup raw cashews soaked approx 2-3 hours, drained
1 tsp hazelnut oil-optional
1/3 cup unrefined organic coconut oil
1/3 cup cocoa butter, finely chopped
1 recipe of raw dipping chocolate-see below

Method
Prepare and measure out all ingredients and set aside.
Place cocoa butter in a double boiler pan over boiling water to melt the cocoa butter for 1-2 mins. Remove from heat before all the pieces have melted leaving the top pan over the hot water and then add the coconut oil to the melted cocao butter allowing it to melt. Add all other ingredients to bowl of food processor and then add the oils and process immediately until smooth and creamy, forming a heavy mixture. Using spatula, scrape mixture into a bowl and chill for approx 45 mins. Once mixture is chilled, scoop by heaping teaspoon fulls and roll into balls and chill again for at least 10 mins on a parchment lined tray. These can now be dipped into the liquid chocolate- recipe is below- or rolled into raw cacao powder or fine dried coconut.

Dipping Chocolate
Yield: enough chocolate to dip approx 24-30 truffles
1 cup cacao butter, finely chopped
1/2 cups raw cacao powder
1/4 cup agave syrup or less- adjust to taste
pinch of Himalayan salt
1/4 tsp ground vanilla or alcohol free liquid vanilla

Method
Place cacao butter in a double boiler pan over boiling water bath to melt the cocoa butter for 1-2 mins. Remove from heat before all the pieces have melted. Add remaining ingredients to the pan and stir until smooth, then remove from water bath.

Take one flavour of truffles from fridge and place a toothpick in each. Dip each one into the liquid chocolate allowing the excess to run off, then placing the truffle on a tray lined with parchment or wax paper. When all are dipped carefully remove the toothpicks by twisting and gently pulling upward. In order to cover the toothpick hole add a garnish of a nut by dipping the nut in chocolate just enough to make it stay on tops or place fine shredded coconut or cacao nibs on the top of each before the chocolate hardens. If the dipping chocolate becomes too thick you may place it over the hot water for a minute or two. Once all truffles are dipped you can speed up the hardening process by chilling for a wee bit-say 10 mins. Do not leave them in the fridge too long as they will form condensation when removed from the cold and this will leave an unwanted finish on the surface of the chocolate. If you run out of dipping chocolate you can roll the truffle centers in cocoa powder or fine dried coconut. Voila, you have world class chocolates now!

Winter Blues and Nights as Dark as Coffee

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Sara Walker

If you live in the northern hemisphere the days are a lot shorter now, the nights longer, the air colder and Christmas cheer the thing to keep you awake and happy, apart from, of course, coffee. In the blistering cold and pitch black darkness you really do need a thing or two to keep you going. We have come up with various ideas for how to keep ourselves awake and happy during the day.

One of our fabulous ideas (if we may say so ourselves) is to combine the smell of gingerbread with coffee. Scent is a feel good factor and most people tend to wake up at the smell of fresh roasted coffee beans. Of course you need some light as well, so our recommendation is to get yourself a mighty nice gingerbread house, which you can put tea candles in. Next to it you keep a candle holder with coffee beans in it and a candle (be sure to watch this if you use a regular candle rather than a tea light, as the beans can catch fire when the candle get to the level of the beans!).

The other feel-good factor you need is of course fresh roasted coffee beans in your cup – in other words: a fresh cup of java. If you want to make it to taste like Christmas you can add some cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg (potentially a dash of cardamom too), as well as a little bit of honey or maple syrup.

To really perk you up in the darkness serve your coffee with some chocolate. You can either turn it into a Mocha, have a square of really good quality dark chocolate with it, or a slice of some dark chocolate cake. The darker the better for added antioxidants (fight the cold system!) and if you can find some cake that’s sweetened by honey, or maple syrup, rather than sugar. In the two coming posts we will teach share a raw chocolate recipe, and a chocolate cake that is sweetened in this way.

Apart from fresh roasted coffee beans and divine chocolate, what will keep you going through winter is plenty of rest, exercise, fruits, vegetables, walks in the outdoors, and some vitamins, like added vitamin D in lieu of sunshine.

If you want to buy coffee for your winter blues, you can buy coffee online through our shop. We offer great prices and great coffee (that in and of itself should cheer you up instantly!).