What are green coffee beans and why are green coffee beans so popular? What are its uses and benefits?

Green coffee beans have become increasingly popular in the past few years because of their health benefits, customized cooking and, most importantly, their longer shelf life. Unlike roasted coffee beans, raw coffee beans can remain stable for a long time under appropriate conditions.

If you are curious about this new caffeinated craze, or if you have some unanswered questions about the green aspects of beans, please continue to read the following. We will share not only their shelf life, but also the best ways to keep them fresh longer, why they are so popular, and other details that you may not know.

So grab a seat and have a cup of coffee, and then scroll down.

What are green coffee beans?

If you are not familiar with the world of raw coffee, we would like to take some time to get you started quickly. As we mentioned earlier, green coffee is becoming more and more popular because of the many benefits of fruit.

Standard brown (or roasted) coffee beans come from small evergreen trees with red fruit called coffee cherries. The seed of this fruit is coffee beans. Usually, when you buy coffee beans, they are already roasted and ready to brew. However, raw coffee beans are unroasted and in a natural state, directly from the cherry state.

Coffee beans come from all over the world. As the demand for non-baked goods is increasing, you can find them in most grocery stores and other convenient places. Raw coffee, similar to baked beans, has different flavors and boldness.

Mild green coffee beans may come from South America, while more citrus and acid coffee beans come from African countries such as Kenya and Ethiopia. If you like rich, bold flavor, then Indonesia and Brazilian beans are what you are looking for.

Why are green coffee beans so popular?

First of all, they are multi-functional coffee beans with a variety of uses and benefits. Let's take a look at the most important one below.

Health benefits: one of the best things about this coffee is the health benefits associated with it. It is related to losing weight, increasing blood circulation, and can help your body detoxify. High in antioxidants (which can be severely reduced during baking), you can find raw coffee bean extract (GCE) in many multivitamins, supplements and other products. They also contain chlorogenic acid, which can help lower high cholesterol and glucose levels and strengthen the immune system. It also has anti-aging effect.

Customization: another popular benefit of mung beans is that they can be baked according to your special taste. For those who like coffee and have developed specific palettes, roasting coffee beans can be a big advantage. You can customize baking time, flavor, acidity, brewing and so on.

Other drinks: green coffee beans do not need to brew. They can be eaten as cold drinks without any baking. It is important to note that coffee "turns green" tastes very different. The taste of green coffee is similar to that of green tea, with obvious herbal flavor, rather than bold, full-bodied taste.

Shelf life: shelf life is another area where green coffee beans beat their roasted cousins. They remain stable for quite a long time, and some people think that if you freeze them, they will stay fresh for longer, although there is some debate about it. In any case, they last longer, which brings us to the core of the problem (or beans in this case).