Avoid coffee containing pesticide residues, three steps to teach you to buy organic and safe coffee

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Coffee and tea have long been high value crops, and the use of pesticides and fertilizers to ensure consistent yields is common. Coffee sprayed with pesticides and chemical fertilizers has the most direct impact on consumers, that is, your health and mine.

Although coffee beans are not raw fruits and vegetables, but coffee cherry seeds, after a series of production processes: from cherry pulp is discarded, seeds through soaking, fermentation and drying procedures, and become raw beans, and then through more than 180~ 200°C high temperature roasting, into coffee beans; roasted beans and then ground, brewing close to boiling hot water, and become coffee. It feels like there should be little pesticide left, but there are still a lot of coffee beans that have been detected to contain trace amounts of pesticides.

Pesticides sprayed on coffee are absorbed by roots and leaves and spread into plants. Therefore, drinking coffee sprayed with pesticides for a long time is equivalent to drinking pesticide coffee accumulated in each coffee bean for a long time. One can imagine that one cup a day may have a serious impact on the body! Because of this, in recent years, many wise consumers choose to drink organic coffee, healthy eating trend, whether at home and abroad, has been a long time, and the use of organic coffee beans for health, the population is also increasing globally.

In the cultivation of coffee beans, pesticide spraying has two main effects:

The first is the health problem of direct drinking, because chemical poisons remain in coffee seeds, causing direct effects on the body!!

Another is the environmental and social implications of pesticide spraying, as buying coffee beans with pesticides may indirectly harm the coffee growing environment and even exploit the health of coffee farmers.

Coffee farmers in some producing areas, because of lack of information and knowledge, are accustomed to the use of pesticides, they have a psychological dependence of "not spraying, not planting", for a long time, not only destroyed the environmental balance, resulting in the microclimate and microecology required for fine coffee being completely destroyed, in addition to the soil can no longer be planted, farmers may also be in order to buy pesticides, and bear huge agricultural loans, and in the process of planting too much pesticide inhalation, resulting in irreparable damage to the body, Over time, they will be trapped in poverty and unable to support their families, or even lose their health!

If you care about pesticides in your coffee, here are three ways to help you buy organic and safe coffee:

1. Choose traditional coffee growing areas

Coffee beans, which are traditional and without inspection labels, come from traditional, secluded coffee producing areas that have had coffee long before pesticides were invented and are the original origin of coffee. There are several regions in the world that use almost no pesticides, can make you drink with peace of mind, and have excellent flavor: Yemen, Ethiopia, Sumatra Mantanin, Peruvian coffee, etc. It is in such a pure cultivation environment that coffee is produced, so the flavor is especially world-class.

2. Buy certified organic coffee

Certified organic coffee means that its growing conditions and processing processes have been thoroughly monitored to determine that there are no pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, fertilizers, etc. harmful chemicals. They review and confirm that the farm has not used chemicals for many years, and then strictly control the process from handling, packaging, transportation, storage to baking. After such a watertight review, of course, security is guaranteed, but it is relatively expensive. This is one of the reasons certified organic coffee costs more than other, uncertified coffee.

3. Buy coffee with the "sustainability" logo.

"Sustainability" refers to coffee beans purchased by coffee traders or roasters who choose to protect the environment, protect farmers 'income, and make every effort to avoid pesticides. Beans that follow this growing philosophy are certified with a "sustainable" logo when sold. For example: Rainforest Alliance certified coffee beans of Little Frog Logo, UTZ quality agricultural production certification, friendly bird certification to ensure that the planting process does not harm birds, etc. Buying these coffee beans helps avoid the risk of pesticides.

(Xiaobian organizes the pictures for everyone ~ next time don't forget to pay attention to whether there are the following ecological protection labels on coffee beans ~ let's take care of the earth together!)

Rainforest Alliance Certified Coffee Beans

The certification, most familiar to Taiwanese people, regulates the process of coffee tree cultivation, which must maintain soil health and reduce energy use in order to preserve forest ecology.

UTZ Certified

The world's most widely used coffee bean production certification emphasizes the importance of taking care of both people and the environment in the production process, and provides farmers with professional education to help improve the quality of life.

Bird Friendly

The Smith Migratory Bird Center in the United States supports shade coffee from the point of view of conservation and birds. They promote "bird-friendly" certification, which qualifies a farm on several criteria: shade planting, biodiversity, organic cultivation, and so on.

All in all, when consumers choose the quality of this cup of coffee in their hands, don't forget to consider the bitterness and secrets behind the huge coffee industry kingdom!!! As a conscientious consumer, we should do our duty to refuse to use pesticide coffee, the most important thing is not only to let ourselves drink peace of mind, but also to give ourselves a healthy body, but also to the long-term protection of the property and health of farmers in the producing area. In other words, this behavior is the responsibility of every coffee drinker to the conscience, this is as small human beings, in addition to our own health control, your choice will be for the world to re-plant a peaceful seed, small but profound significance.