What are the characteristics of Arabica coffee beans? are Arabica coffee beans black coffee?

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Arabica-Profile Features

Arabica is a large shrub with oval, dark green leaves and oval fruits. Wild plants are generally 9-12 meters tall and spread. Leaves opposite, elliptic-ovate or long-ovate, 6-12 cm long, 4-8 cm wide, dark green. Flowers white, 10-15 mm in diam., axillary clusters.

Berry oval, 10-15 mm in diameter, red to purple when ripe, generally have two slightly flat beans, bean body small and round, obverse was long oval, narrow and curved in the middle of the S-shaped crack, beans on the back of the arc more flat, that is, the so-called "coffee beans." Caffeine content is about 1%-1.7%. Planting distribution studies have shown that Arabica is very sensitive to environmental changes and can only survive within a very narrow temperature range.

Arabica coffee trees grow at an altitude of 900 meters to 2000 meters; cold-resistant, suitable growth temperature is 15-24 ° C; larger humidity is required; annual rainfall is not less than 1500 ml, and higher requirements are required for cultivation techniques and conditions.

Arabica coffee beans are now mainly produced in South America, Central American countries, Africa (Kenya, Ethiopia and other places, mainly East Africa), Asia (including Yemen, India, Papua New Guinea parts of the region), China's Yunnan, Hainan, Taiwan also planted a small amount of Arabica coffee beans. Although Arabica is grown commercially in many countries, wild Arabica grows only in small areas of Ethiopia's southern highlands and neighbouring South Sudan.

When it comes to fine coffee (hopefully you get fine coffee, fine coffee pit is mine, welcome to pit), it should be this coffee (we sell 100% Arabica anyway). This coffee is one of the three major types of coffee, in other words, one of the three most common types of coffee. Therefore, if it is further subdivided, it can be subdivided into many types, such as by variety ~ tibeka ~ bourbon ~ katim ~ something; by region ~ Ethiopia ~ Brazil ~ something; for example, by characteristics ~ elephant beans ~ cat feces ~ something; by altitude ~ high altitude ~ medium altitude ~ low altitude.

To sum it up: Arabica is the better kind of coffee, as long as no other spices are added, Arabica can be said to be the best black coffee.

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