The coffee-to- ratio is typically around 80 percent coffee to 20 percent . In recent years, consumption of has been increasing as the drink is spreading to cities of all faiths, both in and outside Senegal. The
World Bank wrote that a progressive elimination of imported coffee seems common in poorer areas of Senegal as a result of the
global recession of 2009: a Senegalese restaurant owner stated, "We weren't used to the Tuba Coffee for breakfast, but since the crisis people drink it a lot, also children." Commercial export outside Senegal, while small, is present. In
Guinea-Bissau, has become the country's most popular drink, even though it was relatively unknown several years ago. Consumption of increased to the point that sales of
instant coffee, most notably
Nescafé, decreased in
West Africa. To more directly compete with ,
Nestlé launched a product that contains spices, called Nescafé Ginger & Spice. ==See also==