About Coffee Beans

With an estimated four hundred billion cups being consumed each year, coffee is the world’s most popular beverage and a commodity that is second only to oil. Coffee beans per se are not a bean at all but rather the seed of the coffee cherry fruit. Coffee trees are grown in around eighty countries, all of which lie in a narrow equatorial belt, sometimes referred to as the coffee bean belt.

Although there are around sixty different types of coffee tree, two types, namely Arabica and Robusta, dominate the world market in coffee beans. Out of those two, the Robusta coffee tree is the hardiest producing a coffee cherry that has a higher caffeine content. However, Arabica coffee trees, which only grow at higher elevations, produce denser coffee beans that are generally more flavoursome than Robusta. However, both growing conditions and methods of processing dictate the quality of the final product, which is the coffee that ends up in your cup.

Coffee Bean Articles

• Origins of Coffee - Coffee Arabica - Coffee Robusta
  
  Origins of Coffee - Coffee Arabica - Coffee Robusta - It is believed that coffee originated in the Ethiopian region of Kaffa in northeastern Africa, and long ago became a popular beverage ...
• History of Coffee - Coffee Legends and Reality
  
  History of Coffee | Coffee Legends and Reality - That a mere beverage could generate so many romantic tales and so much hard-headed business is a wonder. Yet from its beginnings to the present ...
• Coffee Bean - Coffee Bean Tree | History
  
  Coffee Bean - Coffee Bean Tree - History - Beer may be the oldest man made brew, with wine a distant second. Their younger cousin, coffee, arose a few hundred years later, though nobody knows ...
• Growing Coffee Beans - Where Coffee Beans Grow
  
  Growing Coffee Beans - Where Coffee Beans Grow - For a tree grown in over seventy countries, from Indonesia to Brazil, it is curious how narrow a range of conditions is necessary for growing...
• Coffee Bean Producers - Major Coffee Producers
  
  Coffee Bean Producers - Major Coffee Producers - From its origins in Ethiopia, where the main coffee production is still from wild coffee tree forests, coffee consumption has spread throughout ...
• Fairtrade Coffee - Fair Trade Organic Coffee
  
  Fairtrade Coffee - Fair Trade Organic Coffee - In many of the equatorial Third World economies, coffee is a leading crop with the main export markets being in the First World economies ...
• Specialty Green Coffee Beans
  
  Specialty Green Coffee Beans need to be fairly uniform in size and similarly shaped. This is important to help ensure an even roast. Smaller coffee beans roast differently than larger ones. When ...
• Coffee Varieties - Coffee Varieties Around The World
  
  Coffee Varieties - Coffee Varieties Around The World - Once upon a time in America there was drip or instant, milk or sugar. Folger's was the name of the game. Then, from Australian Skybury to ...
• World Coffee Review - World Best Coffee
  
  World Coffee Review - World Best Coffee - So where does the world's best coffee come from. Although the best is down to the individual palette, here is a world coffee review on a country ...