It’s a ridiculously hot summer afternoon, and the untimely power cut at your home makes it even more ridiculous.
Seconds turn into minutes and minutes turn into hours. And you don’t know how long you will have to wait for the power to be back.
You are literally rolling on the floor crying your eyes off. Sweat beads form over your face and your shirt gets stuck to your skin.
Wait. Before I further run through the annoying details, I would like to ask you something.
How about some chilled coffee? Or better, how about a few coffee ice cubes floating around a tumbler of cold milk?
I can see a gleam splattering across your face! And yes, coffee ice cubes are a reality. They ain’t some fantasy lurking inside the pages of a legend.
So want to prepare a few cold cubes of coffee? Then this is how!
Take an empty ice cube tray and pour freshly brewed coffee into it. One thing you must ensure is that the tray doesn’t overflow with coffee. Pour only the required amount of coffee into the ice cube tray.
Place the ice cube tray inside the freezer. Leave it that way for a few hours.
Flip and remove the solidified coffee cubes one by one from the tray.
Add the ice cubes to any of your favourite beverage or cold milk, and get enticed with the exotic richness of coffee!
You never believed the best of foods can come in the simplest of ways, did you? Anyway, you are now enjoying coffee ice cubes. Fine. But why coffee ice cubes? Why not anything else?
Coffee, though at times despised for certain reasons, has got a good number of health benefits too!
Let me tell you this: you can find caffeine in almost all commercial fat burning supplements.
And there is a reason for this. Coffee is found to boost the metabolic rate. In fact, caffeine is one of the very few natural substances that are known to burn fat.
The unfortunate thing is there is no cure for Alzheimer’s. And the fortunate thing is Alzheimer’s can be prevented altogether in the first place.
Coffee can help achieve that. Coffee drinkers have a much lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s, which is a leading cause of Dementia the world over.
Depression is a very serious mental disorder. And coffee actually helps in fighting it. In a Harvard study published in 2011, it was found that women who drank around 4 cups of coffee a day had 20% lower risk of getting depressed.
According to a study conducted by the American Chemical Society, people who drank over 2 cups of coffee a day had reduced the chances of contracting Type II Diabetes by 50%.
Yes. ‘Fifty’ percent. Now that’s something you need to look at!
Antioxidants, as it is being said since time immemorial, help remove harmful free radicals from the body. And coffee is known to have a massive amount of antioxidants.
The presence of these antioxidants can actually make you live longer, as you would be less disease prone. The best thing about coffee is it is a strong food that comes along with an appetizing taste. A very rare combination, isn’t it?
So, need I say more? Coffee is one of the best beverages on the planet. Period.