“I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can’t go back. You cannot go back.”
These are the words of great English actor and musician “Hugh Laurie”. Coffee, the last word for a delicious drink. Decades of years back itself, humans fall into the luscious taste of coffee. Now coffee aficionados are increasing day by day. Coffee, the miraculous drink, is one of the world’s most widely consumed beverages. For instance, Affogato, Americano, Cappuccino, Caffe Latte, Caffe Mocha etc.
A coffee bean is a seed of the coffee plant, and it is the source of coffee. Coffee is a concoction brewed from roasted seeds or beans of the coffee plant. After reaping, the berries of the coffee plant, the flesh is removed, leaving the bean.
As we see in the picture, each coffee berry has two beans and seldom just a single bean. Depending on the shape, colour, flavour, environment where they are grown, coffee beans are of different types. The region of its origin is in the Horn of Africa and South Arabia.
Major Two Types Of Coffee Beans:
- Arabica —– 60% of the coffee produced worldwide is Arabica. Arabica trees create fine, mild and aromatic coffee. It is tastier than Robusta. Flavours varies from floral and sweet to dark chocolate and red wine. It has less caffeine than others. Black coffee lovers always deal with Arabica.
- Robusta —– Terrifically, it is used in blends and for instant coffees. The Robusta tree is heartier and highly resistant to infection and parasites, thus makes its cultivation easier. Its taste is grainy, woody and acidic. As it contains more caffeine content than Arabia, it makes us more energetic at the right time. It does great with espresso.
Roasted And Unroasted Coffee Beans:
Ultimately, coffee beans appear in these two forms. Both have their own importance and quality. In roasted, moisture proportion is roasted off, and in unroasted not.
Roasted coffee beans smell exactly like coffee and are weightless. It has a light to dark brown colour. They are crunchy to bite and brew. They are more delicious. Once roasted, nonetheless, they must be used earlier before the fresh roast flavour starts to decline.
Unroasted coffee beans are in their raw form and in green colour. Even its taste is bitter due to high chloric acid, it helps to burn fast than a roasted bean. Eventually, it is a little bit hard to bite and chew. But it is completely safe to have.
How To Prepare Coffee From Coffee Beans:
In the case of Roasted coffee beans, firmly grind some quantity of beans in a jar. Be careful not to over crush. Put some powder in hot water. Add adequate sugar. Stir it well and can have it.
In the case of Unroasted coffee beans, as it is raw and difficult to grind, mix some beans in a cup of hot water and leave it for 10 minutes. After that, strain the mixture with a fine sieve and can have.
Benefits of Coffee Beans:
- Rich with powerful antioxidants
- Reduce risk of diabetes and combat inflammation
- Includes cancer fighting elements
- Contains caffeine, energy stimulant
- Diminish risk of deaths from all causes
- Preventive against heart diseases and stroke
- Good fighter for liver diseases like liver fibrosis and cirrhosis
- Reduce impact of brain disorder
- Lowers blood pressure
As a matter of fact, Coffee the unavoidable factor of relish should be purchased only from reputed brands double-checking all certifications and authentications. Here comes the importance of LOCOKERALA, the worldwide recognized company. We after productive cultivation and a lot of testing to attain the maximum quality of the product, only consider the serving part for you. Likewise, with great heartfelt proudness, we deliver the coffee beans here.
- Coorg Blue Mount Roasted Arabica Coffee Bean
- Green Malabari Reserve Unroasted Green Coffee Bean
- Western Ghats Monsooned Malabar Roasted Robusta Coffee Bean
Coffee beans, the energy booster with splendid taste is a collection of antioxidants and preventative against many lifestyle diseases, should be taken as our daily routine. Let me conclude with the lines of the previous president of America, ‘THOMAS JEFFERSON’,
“Coffee, the favourite drink of the civilized world”
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