Everything about Coffee Bean totally explained
A
coffee bean is the seed of the
coffee plant (the
pit inside the red or purple fruit). The fruits, coffee cherries or coffee berries, most commonly contain two stones with their flat sides together. Coffee beans consist mostly of
endosperm that contains 0.8 - 2.5 %
caffeine, which is one of the main reasons the plants are cultivated. Coffee beans are an important
export product for some countries.
Etymology
The name derives from the
Arabic language (
qahwa - "coffee" and
bunn - "berry"). The name
bean isn't
botanically accurate as the Coffee plant isn't a member of the
Fabaceae family.
Types
Species of coffee plant include
Coffea arabica,
Coffea benghalensis,
Coffea canephora,
Coffea congensis,
Coffea excelsa,
Coffea gallienii,
Coffea bonnieri,
Coffea mogeneti,
Coffea liberica, and
Coffea stenophylla. The seeds of different species produce
coffee with slightly different characteristics.
Coffea arabica accounts for about 75% of the world's coffee trade, while
Coffea canephora (syn.
Coffea robusta) is cultivated where
Coffea arabica doesn't thrive, and
Coffea liberica and
Coffea excelsa are grown in limited areas.
In a crop of coffee, a small percentage of cherries contain a single bean, instead of the usual two. This is called a
peaberry.
Processing
Coffee beans are removed from the coffee cherries or fruit, which is either discarded as waste or used as fertilizer.
Further Information
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