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Friends who love coffee can't wait to take a cup of coffee with them and drink it if they want. Friends around me often ask, is it better to buy coffee beans or coffee powder? Let's talk about this topic today. I'm sure it will be helpful for you to buy coffee.

Selection of coffee beans and coffee powder

First of all, when it comes to coffee beans, we all know that to turn roasted coffee beans into a cup of coffee requires grinding, boiling water, weighing, brewing and other processes. at the same time, each step needs to be achieved with different tools. the relatively complex process and the tools that need to be equipped make many people feel that buying coffee beans is too troublesome.

Coffee powder is very simple, without relying on a grinder, a measuring spoon, a filter paper, a filter cup, a pot of hot water, it can be brewed in a few minutes.

Now the busy urban white-collar workers particularly like hanging-ear coffee, and even the metering and filter cup filter paper are omitted, which makes drinking coffee easy and unusual.

However, using coffee powder or hanging earbags is very simple and convenient, but it doesn't make sense if coffee powder is widely respected just because of this. In fact, coffee powder products also have a very big problem, the main problem is that the deterioration rate of coffee powder is many times faster than coffee beans.

Roasted coffee beans change over time, roasted beans will lose their flavor after a certain period of time, and the taste will become bad. The process in which coffee beans slowly lose their fragrance is called deterioration.

In the process of grinding coffee beans, about 70% of the carbon dioxide will dissipate, and the remaining 30% of carbon dioxide will volatilize several times faster than unground coffee beans. Carbon dioxide plays an important role in preventing the deterioration of the surrounding environment (moisture, oxygen, etc.) of coffee.

If it is ground into powder, the effect will be much reduced. Carbon dioxide volatilization at the same time, will also take away part of the aroma of coffee, so the aroma of coffee powder will naturally be not as good as coffee beans.

Of course, if the powder made from freshly baked beans bought in the store is finished in a few days, there won't be much change in flavor. But if you don't finish it soon, you can compare freshly ground coffee powder with long-standing coffee powder at the same time, and you'll see how expensive it is to use coffee powder for convenience.

Now there are many coffee sellers on Taobao, basically there are two choices of coffee beans and coffee powder, if you really want to experience fresh and mellow coffee, the editor suggests buying coffee bean products as much as possible. Of course, it's not that you can't buy coffee powder, but when you choose to buy coffee powder or hanging-ear coffee, don't buy too much at once and drink it in as short a time as possible.

In fact, people respect powder products not only because of convenience and simplicity. A coffee lecture once conducted a questionnaire survey. When asked why they bought coffee powder, many people replied, "because they don't know where to buy coffee beans." this may be the real reason.

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