[tasting] Coffee with high sweetness is sweeter than coffee with sweeter taste.

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What is sweetness?

Sweetness is generally associated with the high sugar content of the food itself, which is most commonly found in carbohydrates, which contain sucrose (usually granulated sugar) and lactose (milk).

In the Flavor Bible, Page and Dornenburg write: "sweetness provides the greatest stimulation to the taste buds of the tongue (in contrast to salty, sour and bitter). However, through the balance and roundness, we can feel the delicacy brought by the subtle sweetness of the food.

In other words, sweetness is not only important to us sweet lovers, it is also an element of balancing taste.

Why do we love sweets and sugar drinks?

Humans and many animals have a preference for sweets. Sweets give us energy, just as bitterness warns us that food is poisonous, and humans are much more sensitive to bitterness than sweetness, which allows us to save our lives when we eat.

Most people remember the bitter taste when our parents gave us our first cup of coffee or beer when we were teenagers. With the passage of time, we are also used to bitter taste. "time" is a keyword.

The love of sweetness is probably due to natural reactions. Babies enjoy lactose in breast milk, and lovers give candy and chocolates to each other as gifts.

What kind of sugar is in coffee?

Coffeechemistry.com records that carbohydrates in raw coffee beans account for 50% of the total weight of coffee, including sucrose, pectose, mannose, glucose, galactose, rhamnose, xylose and other natural sugars. Of course, not all of these sugars are water-soluble, only some of them will be boiled into your coffee.

The sugar content in coffee is also related to varieties, tree species and treatment process. For example, coffee grown in Arabica contains almost twice as much sugar as Robusta, which is one of the reasons why Arabica has better quality. It is generally believed that Bourbon coffee is sweeter than Catimor coffee.

The slower the coffee fruit ripens (for example, it may be planted at a higher altitude), it usually contains more sugar. in addition, honey-treated coffee may be sweeter than washed coffee.