Introduction of Robusta fruit species

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Robusta coffee, also known as big-leaf coffee, is native to the Congo of Africa. It is disease-resistant, insect-resistant and can withstand the high temperature of lowlands. It is a lowland coffee that is easy to grow. It tastes bitter but not sour and is suitable for making mixed coffee. It accounts for 30% of the world's output and has been widely cultivated in recent years.

In fact, the Robusta species was originally a mutant of the Congo species (scientific name: Coffee Canephora), and it should be compared with the Alabica species. Today, however, the Robusta species is commonly used by ordinary people, and it is not known that it is actually a variant of the Congolese species.

The coffee tree planted by Robusta is a kind of tree between shrubs and tall trees. Its leaves are long and bright green. The tree can be up to 10 meters high, but its roots are very shallow. The fruit is slightly rounder and smaller than Arabica coffee. The bean body is flat and round. The middle pit is straight.

Robusta kind of Ken has a unique aroma (known as "Rob flavor", some people mainly moldy smell) and bitter taste. If 23% of the coffee is mixed with other coffee, the whole cup of coffee will become Rob flavor (therefore, Robusta coffee beans can not be drunk as individual coffee beans). Its flavor is so bright and strong, but if you want to taste it directly, you have to be prepared. In general, robusta coffee is used in instant coffee (which extracts about twice as much liquid as Arabica), canned coffee, liquid coffee and other industrial coffees. Its caffeine content is much higher than that of Arabica, about 3.2%.