A brief introduction to the growth, environmental characteristics and development status of Robusta

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Robusta (Coffee Robusta Linden) is one of the most important coffee tree species in the world. It is a leaf rust tolerant variety found in Congo, Africa, and has stronger resistance than Arabica.

Introduction:

In the general coffee market, many people like to compare Robusta and Arabica coffee beans, which is incorrect. In fact, Robusta is a mutant of Coffee Canephora, so Arabica should be compared to Congo. Today, however, the Robusta species is commonly used by ordinary people without realizing that it is actually a variant of the Congo species.

Growth and Environment:

Arabica coffee beans grow at high altitudes where temperatures are lower in the tropics, and those hot and low altitudes where Arabica beans do not grow well are Robusta coffee beans.

Robusta is planted in lowlands at an altitude of 200-600 meters, likes warm climate, requires temperature of 24 - 29℃, and does not require high rainfall, but the variety depends on insects or wind to transmit pollen, so coffee takes 9-11 months from pollination to fruit, which is longer than Arabica.

Features:

Robusta's coffee tree is a kind of tree between shrubs and tall trees, long leaves, bright green color, trees up to 10 meters tall, but the roots are very shallow, fruit is slightly rounder than Arabica coffee fruit, beans are flat round, the center pit is straight.

Robusta has a distinctive aroma (known as "rob", some people think it's a musty smell) and bitterness, and if mixed with other coffees at 2-3%, the whole cup becomes rob. Therefore, Robusta coffee beans are not drinkable as single-serve coffee beans.

Its flavor is as bright as some strong, but if you want to taste it directly, I am afraid you have to be mentally prepared.

Robusta coffee is generally used in industrial coffee production such as instant coffee (which produces about twice the amount of coffee extracted from Arabica), canned coffee, and liquid coffee.

Robusta contains twice as much caffeine as Arabica, about 3.2 percent.

Development Status:

Robusta seeds account for 25 - 35 percent of coffee bean production and are mainly produced in Indonesia, Vietnam, Africa and West African countries centered on Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Angola. In recent years, Vietnam has been committed to coffee production and has included it in the national policy; Vietnam also produces a small portion of Arabica coffee beans. One of Indonesia's coffee beans is a water-washed coffee bean, a hybrid of Robusta and Arabica, the only coffee bean on the Chinese market that can be used as a single drink.