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Do you know the difference between coffee with different names?

Published: 2026-08-22 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/08/22, Professional coffee knowledge exchange more coffee bean information please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style) We often hear lattes, mochas, American coffee, espresso, what's the difference between these coffees? Today, the editor takes you to understand the basic difference of coffee through nine pictures of fried eggs. American coffee is the most common one.

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We often hear lattes, mochas, American coffee and espresso. What's the difference between these coffees?

Today, the editor takes you to understand the basic difference of coffee through nine pictures of fried eggs.

American coffee is the most common one, which is made by using a drip filter coffee pot, or by adding a lot of water to the Italian concentrate.

Espresso is a type of coffee with a strong taste by extracting coffee with extremely hot but non-boiling hot water and grinding it into a very fine coffee powder under high pressure. Compared with American coffee, it tastes better and more bitter.

White coffee does not mean that the color of coffee is white, but uses special coffee beans and special skimmed cream raw materials to remove a large amount of caffeine after moderate and mild low temperature baking and special processing, and remove the bitter and sour taste produced by high temperature carbon roasting. To minimize the bitter taste and caffeine content of coffee, glycol aroma does not hurt the stomach, retain the original color and flavor of coffee, smooth taste, pure The color is lighter and softer than ordinary milk coffee, with a touch of milk golden yellow, so it is named white coffee.

Mocha coffee is a mixture of Italian espresso, chocolate sauce, whipped cream and milk. Mocha is named after the famous port of Mocha.

Latte is a classic blend of Italian espresso and milk. Italians also like lattes as breakfast drinks.

Cappuccino is an Italian coffee mixed with the same amount of Italian espresso and steamed milk. The color of the coffee is like a cappuccino monk covering a dark brown coat with a headscarf, hence the name caffeine.

Macchiato coffee is a kind of milk coffee, which is first mixed with milk and vanilla syrup, then added with milk foam, and then poured into the coffee, and finally sprinkled with net lattice caramel on the milk foam. Its name caramel macchiato symbolizes the sweet mark.

Campbell blue means espresso with whipped cream. It is said that the authentic Campbell blue should be paired with a chocolate or toffee. First put chocolate or toffee in your mouth, and then drink coffee to let the delicacy bloom in your mouth.

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