What are male beans and female beans? What kind of flavor do you have? Why are there round beans?

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What are male beans and female beans? What kind of flavor do you have? Why are there round beans?

We often hear people talk about "male beans" and "female beans". In fact, coffee beans do not really have male and female parents. A more correct term should be round beans:

Coffee is a kind of fruit, and the outer layer of coffee fruit has pulp (pectin layer), and the middle is usually composed of two seeds facing each other (just like the fruit we usually eat). The plane of the two seeds faces inward, and the round face faces the outer pulp. The round bean is a hereditary malformation. there is only one seed instead of two seeds in the fruit, which has no plane and has round faces on both sides.

The two coffee beans above are round beans on the right and normal coffee beans on the left. You can see that each side of the round beans is round, while the normal coffee beans are flat on one side.

Why are there round beans?

No one is sure, and so far there is not enough scientific research to explain the origin of round beans, and 5-10% of the seeds in coffee fruits are round beans.

How to screen out round beans?

Round beans can be found in every kind of coffee, or in any coffee-producing country. Coffee round beans are due to the fact that they can be distinguished and screened only by hand-picked work in the coffee processing process.

Round beans are often found in Tanzania, Kenya and Brazil because these countries have set up special construction to screen round beans.

What's so special about round beans?

This part is controversial, some people think that the flavor of round beans is better, compared with the same batch of normal beans, the flavor of round beans is slightly brighter and less mellow. However, this has never been proved. Making round beans is like brewing other ordinary beans, and when you enjoy coffee made from round beans, you must attribute the taste of the coffee to these selected special beans.

As for whether it is good or not? It may be up to you to judge. "rarity" or "high price" does not mean that you will like it. The most important thing is to have a comfortable and pleasant feeling.