Do you know what organic coffee means? what is the difference between organic coffee and plain coffee?

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The caffeine of organic coffee is more than half lower than that of coffee grown normally. After professional and experienced roasting, there will be less caffeine left, and other active ingredients in coffee will be efficiently preserved. For people who need to improve their immunity, it reduces the risk, but can get a healthier body.

Organic coffee does not use any insecticides or other chemicals to treat diseases and insect pests or cultivation problems, but uses natural methods, such as natural composting, hedgerow, pruning, etc., to maintain the growth of coffee trees. Use all-natural biological control methods in pest control, such as planting protective trees, and using a variety of other natural farming techniques to ensure the health of coffee trees. Because the sustainability of land, water and the natural ecological environment is an active concern of the organic coffee industry.

These ways of growing coffee are conducive to maintaining a healthy environment and keeping the groundwater pure. After the coffee is harvested, be sure to use an organically certified roaster to process the coffee beans. Organic coffee is made of beans grown in the shade of trees. Although the yield of the method of planting in the shade is not high, its quality can reach the level of gourmet coffee.

Industrial pesticides and pesticides used in traditional agriculture are harmful to human health, and there are residues in the process of food cooking. these ingredients are the culprits of many allergies and are closely related to many types of cancer and Alzheimer's disease. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) studied the pesticides currently in use and found that 60 per cent of herbicides, 90 per cent of fungicides and 30 per cent of pesticides had a potential risk of causing cancer. Organic agriculture excludes these pesticides and chemicals from our food.

As organic coffee is generally planted under shade trees, shade trees form a cool micro-environment, which lowers the surrounding temperature of coffee fruits (up to 4 degrees), thus slowing down the time of fruit ripening and giving birth to more abundant substances. in flavor, it is indeed better than full-time coffee.

However, shade trees are not exclusive to organic coffee, and there are other certified coffees. For example, sustainable coffee (sustainable coffee), which is closely related to organic coffee, is also grown under shade trees, which can also produce coffee with superior flavor, but the restrictions of sustainable coffee are not as strict as organic coffee, and some approved artificial chemicals are allowed to be used. from this point of view, "flavor" is not the beauty of organic coffee.

There are exceptions to the shade tree approach. For example, Kona, a famous coffee producer in Hawaii, is one of the few growing areas where shade trees are not needed because of the natural clouds that cover the right amount of sunlight every day.

The difference between organic coffee and pure coffee is probably the difference in planting.

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