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Coffee is one of the three major drinks in the world. There are many kinds of coffee. I wonder if you have ever heard of mixed coffee. Today, the editor will introduce you to mixed coffee and tell you about the common methods of making mixed coffee and the benefits of drinking coffee. Let's have a look at it if you like to drink coffee.

Introduction of Coffee categories and basic knowledge of mixed Coffee

Mixed coffee

Mixed coffee, also known as comprehensive coffee, is one of the general terms of coffee classification. Mixed coffee does not refer to a particular kind of coffee, but a kind of coffee with unique flavor generally made from three or more different varieties of coffee beans according to their sour, bitter, sweet, fragrant and mellow taste. High-quality mixed coffee after the completion of the fragrance, smooth and refreshing, golden color, is the top grade of the coffee.

Types of mixed coffee

Due to the different types of coffee beans, the mixed coffee is also different in taste, so there are different kinds of mixed coffee.

1. Mixed coffee with balanced taste

Recipes: Guatemala SHB (30%), Mexico AL (30%), Brazil NO.219 (20%), Kilimanjaro AA (10%).

Top mixed coffee is the best match between sour taste, bitter taste and aroma. Guatemala coffee beans with strong sour taste, Mexican coffee beans with both sour and sweet taste, and Brazilian coffee beans with mild bitterness. Mix these coffee beans in an equal proportion, and then mix in the right amount of Kilimanjaro coffee beans with strong sour taste. Mix the coffee with a balanced taste and moderate concentration.

2. bitterness-based mixed coffee

Formula: Mantenin G1 (40%), Colombia SUP (30%), Brazil NO.219 (20%), Kilimanjaro AA (10%).

Choose strong coffee beans, Mantenin in Sumatra, Indonesia, Colombian beans with strong bitterness and sour taste, Brazilian coffee beans with moderate bitter taste, and Kilimanjaro beans with sour taste, mixed coffee with more bitter taste.

3. Sour mixed coffee

Recipes: Kilimanjaro AA (40%), Mocha Plateau Hara (20%), Brazil NO.219 (20%), Hawaii Kona NO.1 (20%).

Based on Kilimanjaro beans, mild coffee with mild taste of Mocha Plateau Hara and Brazilian beans from Ethiopia and moderate acidity of Hawaii Kona can be blended.

4. Flavor-based mixed coffee

Recipes: Guatemala SHB (40%), Kilimanjaro AA (30%), mocha plateau hara (30%).

The aroma-based mixed coffee is a mixture of a variety of coffee beans with different characteristics to make the flavor more intense. The aromatic mixed coffee can be blended with fragrant Guatemala SHB, sour Kilimanjaro beans and Mocha Plateau Hara with natural fruit flavor.

5. American mixed coffee

Formula: Brazil NO.219 (50%), Mexico AL (30%), Jamaica washed beans (20%).

Choose moderately roasted coffee beans, mainly Brazilian coffee beans with a balanced sour and bitter taste, mixed with sweet and sour Mexican beans and Jamaican water-washed beans with flavor and bitterness, into a unique American blend of coffee.

6. Full-bodied mixed coffee

Recipes: Colombia SUP (50%), Brazil NO.219 (30%), Java Robusta WIBI (20%).

In order to highlight the rich and heavy taste, it is necessary to choose Colombian beans with heavy taste and moderate acidity, accompanied by Brazilian coffee beans with balanced taste, as well as a combination of rich flavor and bitter taste.

Introduction of Coffee categories and basic knowledge of mixed Coffee

The benefits of drinking coffee

Although there are few nutrients in coffee, there are more than 300 "non-nutritious ingredients". For example, flavonoids and polyphenols in coffee play a significant role in anti-oxidation and anti-aging, while caffeine can stimulate nerve excitation. it has the effect of refreshing and relieving fatigue.

Coffee contains certain nutrients.

Coffee beans contain sugars, protein, fat, potassium, crude fiber, moisture and other nutrients. In addition, coffee also contains caffeine, tannic acid, alkaloids and other beneficial ingredients.

Coffee is good for the skin.

Coffee can not only improve the metabolism of the body, but also improve gastrointestinal digestion function, which plays an important role in relieving constipation. The use of coffee powder bath is a kind of thermotherapy, which has a certain effect on weight loss.

Coffee has the effect of relieving alcohol.

Drinking some coffee after drinking can quickly oxidize the alcohol in the body, forming water and carbon dioxide, and quickly excreting it from the body.

Drinking coffee regularly can avoid radiation damage.

Radiation, especially electrical radiation, has now become a very worrying pollution, which does great harm to human health. Some nutrients in coffee can enhance the body's resistance to this kind of radiation.

Coffee has certain health care and medical functions.

Coffee has the functions of anti-oxidation and heart protection, strengthening muscles and bones, benefiting waist and knees, appetizer, eliminating fat and accumulation, activating blood circulation and removing stasis and so on.

Coffee can keep people in a positive mood.

Experiments have shown that people usually consume 300 milligrams of caffeine (about 3 cups of coffee) a day, which can improve a person's mental sensitivity and make people happy.