Are Arabica coffee beans American black coffee? are they good? the pros and cons of drinking coffee

Many coffee products are billed as "100% Arabica" to emphasize that they use high-quality coffee beans, which also means better flavor. In fact, most of the coffee we drink today, such as hand-made black coffee, American style, lattes and other popular drinks, use Arabica beans, of course, because Arabica tastes better.

Arabica is a variety of coffee.

Coffee is a kind of crop, which bears cherry-like fruit after flowering, so the coffee fruit is also called "coffee cherry". What we call coffee beans are the seeds that come out of the pulp. Coffee originated in Ethiopia. At first, it was mainly used as medicine. Later, people developed the habit of drinking after baking. It was spread to all parts of the world through trade by Arabs in the 16th century, and gradually developed into a popular drink today.

At present, there are two varieties of coffee for commercial cultivation: Arabica and Robusta. The planting area is generally distributed on the coffee belt between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Cancer, and both Robusta and Arabica coffee are suitable for growing in the coffee belt. As a tropical crop, coffee requires relatively high and stable temperature, abundant annual rainfall and sunshine, and fertile soil with good drainage, all of which are suitable conditions for growing coffee trees. The coffee belt covers more than 70 countries and regions in the world, among which more than 50 countries and regions have climate and other conditions that meet the needs of coffee bean growth, so they have become coffee producing countries. For example, Yunnan and Hainan in China are also on the coffee belt, so they are very suitable for the growth of coffee trees.

As the main variety of coffee beans in the world, Arabica needs to grow at a height of 800 to 2200 meters without frost, and the higher the altitude is, the greater the temperature difference is, which delays the ripening of coffee fruit and is more conducive to the accumulation of flavor substances in coffee. the development of aroma is more solid. Each coffee producing area has a unique microclimate, which provides a variety of growth conditions for Arabica and develops the unique regional flavor of the producing area.

Why choose Arabica first?

The reason why people emphasize the Arabica variety is that there is another coffee variety that does not taste very good-Robusta.

Robusta, in fact, it should be the Canefa seed to be exact, it is the medium seed coffee. Today, only one of the Canefra species, called Robusta, has been found to be suitable for commercial cultivation, and later referred to as this medium-grain coffee directly.

Arabica is low in caffeine, about 0.9% to 1.2%, 60% more fat and twice as much sugar than robusta coffee. Therefore, Arabica tastes sweet and soft, with a sour taste of fruit. Robusta's taste is not as pleasant as Arabica, it is bitter, strong, and with some wood, mugi-cha flavor, the only advantage in the sense is that the taste is very thick, very textured. Currently accounts for 25% of global coffee production. Most of these beans are used as raw materials for instant coffee, and a few of them appear as coffee blends or specialty coffee beans. Most of the coffee we drink in the shop is made of Arabica beans. Because of its rich aroma and diverse taste, it will be used in various extraction methods of espresso, hand-brewed coffee and cold-extracted coffee.

Arabica coffee bean recommendation

There is a cost-effective rations bean series on the bean shelf in front street, featuring 7 excellent classic coffee producing areas, covering a number of representative producing areas, varieties and natural treatment methods. The so-called rations and beans, as the name implies, are varieties that have no burden to drink every day, and are very close to the people in price and flavor. Qianjie has selected a number of "facade representatives" so that people can identify the basic flavor of each major producing area. These include Yega Xuefei in Ethiopia, Vivetnango in Guatemala, Whelan in Colombia, half-sun Syrador in Brazil, Tara beads in Costa Rica, wet planer forest in Indonesia and Baoshan in Yunnan, China.

Each type of rations beans are suitable for hand-flushing, cold extraction, French pressure kettle and other methods of extraction, if you want to taste the most primitive aroma of coffee, Qianjie recommends the best form of black coffee. No matter which extraction method is used, Qianjie believes that the freshness of coffee beans is very important, and the aroma of coffee roasted for more than two months is likely to have been lost, and even excellent extraction methods are difficult to restore the aroma in the cup. In order to make you feel the best taste of coffee, Qianjie only delivers beans that are freshly baked within 5 days, and you can almost start brewing when you receive it.

You should have the right amount of good coffee.

For many office workers, a cup of coffee every morning is essential. The right amount of caffeine can wake us up quickly and sometimes help to eliminate edema. Because the calories are very low, it can increase the body's metabolism. Drinking an hour before exercise also helps to burn fat, so it is one of the drinks recommended by many fitness people. However, Qianjie still needs to remind everyone that pure black coffee has a certain effect, if added syrup, condensed milk, cream excipients, it is easy to bring extra calories, long-term drinking is not conducive to our health.

The health of coffee is a long-standing global topic, but the current consensus in the medical community is that moderate consumption of coffee has no adverse effects on health, does not increase the risk of some cancers, and even is beneficial to the body. Qianjie suggests that no more than three cups of coffee a day is good for your health, but it should also be combined with everyone's physique. When we are prone to insomnia and gastrointestinal discomfort after drinking coffee, we should not consume too much caffeine.

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