Can coffee beans be cooked and eaten without grinding? Can coffee beans be soaked directly?

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How to eat coffee beans

People do not "drink" coffee at the beginning, but "eat" coffee, in other words, directly eat the fruit of the coffee tree (called coffee cherry, because the fruit is the same size and color as cherry), more precisely, eat the pulp of coffee (the coffee seed is too hard, of course, just spit it out).

Then, for ease of carrying, Ethiopian soldiers dried the whole coffee cherry and chewed it directly. Today, many coffee producing areas in Africa still treat sun-dried coffee cherries as a snack, sour and crisp, tasting like dried fruit, just put them in your pocket and chew a few when you are in poor spirits, which is quick and convenient.

In addition to dried coffee cherries, people at that time mashed coffee cherries and mixed them with oil into small balls, or boiled coffee leaves in water to drink, or chewed raw coffee leaves directly, nothing more than the refreshing (or psychedelic) effect of coffee. Radical scholars believe that the Nepenthe taken by Princess Helen, who caused the Trojan War, was the ancestor of coffee, because Egypt was the first country to become addicted to coffee.