Introduction of coffee bean structure, coffee bean knowledge

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Exocarp → pulp → endocarp (Parchment) → silver peel → seed

Coffee is grown with seeds with endocarp, and the raw coffee beans we usually come into contact with have their endocarp removed, so they can't be planted.

Endocarp ("sheepskin" or "paper skin") refers to the tea-brown hard skin that wraps the coffee seeds, and the coffee beans attached to that layer are called "shelled beans" ("sheepskin paper beans").

Generally speaking, there are two pairs of seeds in the fruit, but occasionally there is only one seed in the fruit, which is called Pea berry.

The coffee we usually drink is made by grinding, brewing and other steps after roasting the seeds at the center of the coffee fruit.

The coffee tree first blossomed about three years old. the coffee flowers were white five-petal tube-shaped flowers with a faint scent of jasmine, with dense clusters of flowers that withered after two or three days of blooming. If you have the opportunity to stroll around the coffee manor during the flowering period, you can see a vast sea of white flowers, which is very spectacular!

After a few months will begin to bear fruit, coffee fruit is a drupe, initially green, then gradually yellow, ripe and red, very similar to cherries, so it is called coffee cherry (Coffee Cherry), can be harvested at this time.

The harvest season is fruitful, very happy ~ peel off the coffee fruit and take out the nuts inside, which is the raw material for us to make coffee.

This process will generally use the sun or water washing method, and after a certain degree of fermentation treatment to get a sweet and sour rich taste.