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What is peel tea?

Have you ever had peel tea? There's a good chance you don't (at least if you're in the United States) because the drink is relatively new in the coffee industry; however, this tea made from coffee fruits has increasingly appeared in cafes around the world in the past two years.

What is it?

"peel tea" means "shell" or "skin" in Spanish; it is an appropriate name because peel tea is made from the dry skin of coffee berries. Once the coffee beans are taken out, the cherry skins are ground into pulp and dried in the sun. They are then packaged and shipped around the world. The appearance of peel tea is similar to that of loose leaf tea, but the residue of cherry is slightly larger.

After coffee beans are harvested, coffee fruits are often discarded. Peel tea provides a green way to enjoy the whole coffee plant. This product can not only exercise our creativity, but also make full use of the whole factory without wasting anything.

Is this coffee?

It's not true. Peel tea is between coffee and tea. Although it comes from a coffee tree, it tastes different from the coffee beans that grow with it. Peel tea is sweet-with hints of rose, hibiscus and mango, and some tobacco-its caffeine content is not as high as its coffee brothers; peel tea has a peak concentration of "111.4 mg/L", while coffee has a concentration of "400-800 mg/L".

Having said that, it is not really tea. Technically, it still belongs to the Coffea family (along with the familiar Robusta, Arabica and Liberica coffee). The name is misleading because it tastes different from tea; this "tea" is made from fruit, not from herbs or spices, as most other teas do. It may be fairer to call this drink fruit juice than tea.

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