What Are Coffee Beans?
by Jessica W. WriterA coffee bean is a seed of coffee plant and the source for coffee. Its the pit inside the purple or red fruit and is often referred as cherry. Although they are seeds, they are known as beans. This is because they look same like true beans.
There are mainly two species of coffee beans available – Coffee Robusta and Coffee Arabica. More than three quarters of beans, which are sold in world are Coffee Arabica and the remaining is Coffee Robusta, which is also called Coffee Canephora.
Coffee Arabia are generally higher quality beans and are called gourmet coffee. They have half the amount of caffeine like Robusta and have aromatic properties and pleasing flavours. Most of the Arabica bean varieties have got their names after their region in which they originated from.
On the other hand, Coffee Robusta are of lower grade than the Arabica. They are grown typically at lower elevations and are easy to grow as well as maintain. This variety is disease resistant as well and have an astringent flavour. They contain caffeine in high amount.
Other bean species that are available include Benghalensis, Coffee Congensis, Coffee Liberica, Coffee Stenophylla, Sierra Leonian, Coffee Excelsia, Coffee Bonnieri, Coffee Gallienii and Coffee Mogeneti. But all these beans are non-existent in export market.
No matter what variety the coffee bean is, before the roasting process it always remains green. The coffee beans only become brown after the roasting process. Through roasting the green seeds expand and change their taste, smell and aspect. The main purpose of this process is to provide a longer shelf life for the benefit of distributor and consumer. Although there are some people who do roasting at their own home most of the world coffee is roasted in big scales. There are many roasting levels from dark to light. The ones that are lighter are more sharper and acidic.
For the coffee bean to be produced, the soil needs to be well-drained and moist. And a good environment is the one, which is well lit & in which there are also forest shadows around. However, hybrids perform quite well in sunlight.
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