The prices of five common treatments of coffee: washing, semi-washing, tanning and honey treatment

The common treatment methods such as "sun" and "water washing" in the market are the process of removing all the external structures of coffee fruits (also known as coffee cherries) and leaving raw coffee beans. Various treatments will affect the appearance, flavor and price of coffee beans. In addition, in the process of water washing fermentation, coffee beans can also be placed in different environments, such as fruit paste, to add coffee bean flavor.

The appearance of coffee is originally red berries, also known as "coffee cherries". The outer-to-inner structures of coffee are exocarp, pulp, pectin layer, sheepskin, silver skin and coffee beans, while the coffee beans sold on the market are the innermost structure. so when you order in the coffee shop, you see "sun", "water washing", "honey treatment" and other treatments, which refers to the removal of all external structures of coffee cherries. The process of leaving only coffee and raw beans.

In addition to these traditional and extended treatments, it is now popular in the water-washing fermentation process, in which coffee beans are fermented by soaking them in oak barrels, or by adding some kind of puree, which can give coffee beans a distinct special flavor, such as Honduras Shirley. Another treatment is to complete the fermentation process of washing in the digestive tract of animals, that is, expensive "civet coffee" boutique coffee or "masked palm civet coffee" developed in Taiwan, and so on. In fact, the flavor of coffee beans caused by each treatment is different, so the price is not absolute, depending on everyone's taste.