What is the full name of coffee beans? the difference between flat beans and round beans is not as simple as it seems.

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Qianjie-introduction of coffee round beans and flat beans

When the coffee cherry is picked and the exocarp is peeled off, we usually see the following picture-two semicircular beans with an arc on one side and a plane on the other, and the planes of the two beans are close to each other in a circle. We call the beans in this form flat beans.

The shape of raw coffee beans is generally flat beans, but sometimes we buy a bag of coffee beans, there are occasionally a few round beans, we call them PB (Peaberry).

Coffee lovers have their own understanding of the flavor of round beans. The bean body of round bean is full and round, and it combines the essence of two beans in the growth process, so in theory, the flavor of round bean will be richer and more prominent than that of flat bean.

There are many reasons why round beans are formed. First, coffee beans usually grow at the tip of branches and are more likely to form. It generally accounts for only 510% of the total output of the whole tree. The other is that during the growth of coffee beans, two flat beans can not develop normally in the coffee fruit because of the interference of the growth environment (malnutrition, drought, diseases and insect pests, etc.). Coffee is a dicotyledonous plant, usually in the development of two or more beans, because the growth of one of the two flat beans is not strong enough, the other side robs more nutrients into the form of round beans, while the other will wilt and stop developing. In the picture below, coffee beans grow in the way of twins, one of which stops developing, and the strong one grows into round beans.

Coffee beans are the fruits of coffee trees. Generally speaking, a single fruit contains two coffee beans, which is called Type I (type 1) and generally called Flat bean. However, affected by the above factors, part of the fruit will become only a single bean when it is ripe. This oval single bean is commonly known as peaberry, that is, Type II (type 2). Compared with type 2, type 1 is commonly known as mother bean in Chinese, but in fact, the two are only differences in the growth pattern of coffee beans, not gender differences. The Chinese term is more likely to mislead coffee lovers.

Gongdou is a variety of coffee beans, which mainly refers to Peaberry or caracoli, also known as small round beans, while Gongdou is only a common name in Chinese. Common beans can be said to be a flaw in botanics. generally coffee beans have two slices of beans, but there is only one piece of beans, which is also known as a single bean. A piece of beans absorbs more nutrients, and the color, shape and fullness of coffee beans are more full. the coffee is constantly fragrant and the quantity is relatively small, so it is known as Dream Coffee.

Knowledge: coffee flower ovary has two ovules, because it is self-pollination, so the pollination rate is very high, usually two ovules will be pollinated successfully, and developed into a coffee berry with two seeds (flat beans)

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