Is there a gender difference in coffee beans? What is a cod bean and what is a mother bean?

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Have you ever heard that male beans, female beans and coffee beans can also be divided into male and female?

In fact, in order to earn money for tourists, Indonesia deliberately divided coffee beans into male beans and female beans.

In fact, in order to earn money for tourists, Indonesia deliberately divides coffee beans into male and female beans. In fact, coffee trees are self-pollinated without distinction between male and female.

Mother bean

If single flower and double ovule pollination, scientific name flat bean, open two beans, it is commonly known as mother bean; if single flower single ovule pollination (gene mutation), the appearance is a round, it is a public bean, the scientific name round bean, the Japanese call it pill bean. Round beans account for about 3% of the whole coffee tree, grow at the top, high in calories and high in nutrients.

Round bean (public bean)

Since round beans are relatively rare, do they taste better?

In fact, in the past, when choosing beans, round beans would be picked up as smelly beans, but some companies would ask Indonesian farmers to pick up round beans and send them to Taiwan to sell them in organic stores, claiming to be organic beans, and the price was on the high side. in fact, the flavor is the same as ordinary coffee beans, not particularly delicious.