Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
ANNATTO
Etymology
Noun
annatto (countable and uncountable, plural annattos)
(countable) A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree; the fruit of the tree.
(uncountable) The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking.
(uncountable) An orange-red dye obtained from this seed.
Synonyms
• (shrub): achiote, lipstick tree, roucou
• (seed): achiote
• (dye): achiote, anatto, E160b when used as a food colouring
Source: Wiktionary
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DOOMED
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
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