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SEEDS OF CHANGE TOMATO SOUP

SEEDS OF CHANGE TOMATO SOUP

We can all feel it; it happens every year around this time…it’s the change of the seasons. Those long hot summer days are slowly ebbing away and giving way to the mellowness of autumnal colours and flavours. We’ll all soon be reaching to the back of the wardrobe to bring out the sweaters and scarves […]
Could the coffee break be a thing of the past?

Could the coffee break be a thing of the past?

Shock horror for lovers of the coffee break after ‘research’ suggests that we are forgoing the chance for a break and to catch up with all the latest gossip and working straight through at our desks. Many people think being ‘chained to our desks’ is a bad thing and are encouraging businesses and government to […]
FIVE INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CHOCOLATE

FIVE INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CHOCOLATE

In a country with more cocoa beans than money it’s not that surprising when you think about it that the Aztec’s used the beans as a currency. In the 1500’s cocoa beans were regularly being traded for slaves, service and goods across a large part of Latin, Central and Southern America in a process that […]
WORLD’S LARGEST COFFEE MORNING

WORLD’S LARGEST COFFEE MORNING

This September UKVending will be taking part in the world’s largest coffee morning raising valuable funds for MacMillan Cancer Support. On 29 September we, like thousands of other businesses, groups and organisations up and down the country, will stop for a moment, have a coffee, tea or other drink and enjoy a slice of cake […]
TO DUNK OR NOT TO DUNK THAT IS THE QUESTION

TO DUNK OR NOT TO DUNK THAT IS THE QUESTION

Shakespeare will probably be turning in his grave to think that his quote from Hamlet has been transformed into a question about whether it is right to dunk biscuits in tea or coffee; but for fear of paraphrasing him yet further: is it better to suffer a soggy biscuit or to suffer the slings and […]
HOW COFFEE MACHINES CAN HELP YOUR MENTAL HEALTH

HOW COFFEE MACHINES CAN HELP YOUR MENTAL HEALTH

Your coffee machine sits in the corner of your workplace dutifully supplying hot delicious beverages but have you ever thought how it and even the water cooler could improve your mental health? No? Well let me explain. Health and lifestyle coaches will use everyday items that through our busy lives we often overlook, such as […]
HIGH STREET FASHION

HIGH STREET FASHION

What links leading fashion chains Adidas, Victoria Secret, North Face, Timberland and American Eagle? I think you’re going to be surprised when you find out that it is coffee. Or more precisely ground coffee beans. All of these leading manufacturers of clothes and shoes have in recent years sourced large portions of their product lines […]
WHAT ARE PHENOLS?

WHAT ARE PHENOLS?

  As you enjoy that coffee delivered steaming hot from one of our UKVending machines, you probably aren’t thinking about phenols and what they are doing to you. Well perhaps you should be, but don’t worry phenols are amongst the good guys. A 2010 study published in the American Journal of Physiology found that phenols […]
10 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT CADBURY’S

10 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT CADBURY’S

Chocolate: the very word makes some people start to long for the stuff, well Cadbury’s have been making chocolate for nearly 200 years and here are some interesting facts about the company that you never knew. There are 350 million bars of Dairy Milk chocolate sold every year. That’s nearly a million a day. Cadbury’screated the first heart-shaped chocolate […]

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