Can I eat coffee beans directly? What do coffee beans taste like? What does golden cup extract mean?

Believe it! Everyone must have thought when drinking coffee: since coffee beans can show such a rich flavor, if we chew coffee beans directly, will we be able to feel its flavor more directly and comprehensively? absorb more substances? Like caffeine!

Since last year, more and more friends have come up with this idea. The cause is a popular TV series last year, in which a villain with a distinct personality likes to grab a handful of coffee beans and chew them directly when he is nervous. That's right! The villain who chews coffee beans is Gao Qiqiang who wants to eat fish.

But coffee beans have always been used as a material for making coffee, and they are thrown away after extraction, just like tea. Can it really eat such a creepy-looking thing? Not to mention, coffee beans are indeed edible. When coffee beans were first discovered, people chewed them directly. Qianjie saw such a passage in Mr. Han Huaizong's "New Coffee" book: the Gella, one of the major ethnic groups in Ethiopia, chewed coffee leaves to refresh themselves in the early days. The specific way is to pick and mash the coffee fruit, then wrap it with animal fat and knead it into a small ball, which can be used as a "big pill" for courage during a long journey, expedition or robbery. Up to now, the Gaila people still retain the custom of eating Dali pills or brewing wine with coffee fruits. In addition, the same is true of the widely spread Legend of the Coffee Shepherd. When Shadeli was looking for herbs in Ethiopia, he happened to catch a glimpse of the excited appearance of a goat devouring coffee beans, so he also picked the red fruit and found that it was not only refreshing, but also sweet and sour and juicy. So for a long time, coffee has been eaten as a refreshing food.

So the question is, since there are so many records describing what coffee beans can eat, why has the custom not been spread? On the contrary, it was only after the TV series became popular that people learned that coffee beans were edible. The answer is very simple, because coffee beans, and! No, no! good! Eat!

As we all know, coffee beans contain 30% soluble matter, except for this 30% soluble matter, the other is wood fiber. It's not that wood fiber can't be eaten, but it's very difficult to swallow. It can be said that when we chew coffee beans, it is the same as chewing wood.

The second is the taste, we are mainly talking about the taste of ripe beans. Because the coffee raw bean has a very high density and toughness, and the aroma has not been roasted by the fire, it is very unsuitable for consumption. When raw coffee beans are roasted by raging fire, the structure of coffee beans becomes looser and more brittle because of various chemical reactions. Not only that, the substances originally stored in coffee beans are transformed into thousands of aromatic substances after baking. So at this time, it will be more suitable for dry chewing than it is in raw beans (only compared with raw beans).

But you know, the difficulty of dry chewing will also be distinguished by the degree of baking! Light-roasted coffee beans are not easy to chew for friends with bad teeth because of their low expansion rate, low brittleness and high density, while deep-roasted coffee beans are just the opposite because they are expanded enough. the brittleness can be easily crushed. So generally speaking, some desserts or drinks that will use coffee beans as embellishment will use deep-roasted coffee beans to avoid the occurrence of broken teeth caused by eating.

Can dry chewing coffee beans give you a flavor? Can caffeine get more? Let's start with caffeine, because many friends are most concerned about whether dry chewing coffee beans can get more caffeine. According to reason, it is!

Because when we use coffee beans to make coffee, we will limit the extraction in order to reduce the release of bitterness and miscellaneous flavor. We will only extract about 20% of the 30% soluble matter, which is called gold cup extraction. Through dry chewing and swallowing, we can absorb 30% of the substance, so overall, caffeine is more intact.

In terms of flavor, I believe we all feel the aroma when the coffee beans are ground into powder, and the dry chewing coffee beans will have the same feeling. When we bite off the coffee beans, with the burst of the beans, the aroma will burst out. But it's just the aroma, the concrete flavor we feel when we drink coffee. When we chew coffee beans, the taste buds don't receive the same message! After the aroma, it is full of bitterness, and there is the feeling of sticking throat brought by coffee grounds.

What's the point of chewing coffee beans? According to research, dry chewing coffee beans can bring a certain sense of relief, because coffee beans become crisp after roasting. On the other hand, when people eat crispy food, it will make the brain have a certain sense of pleasure, thus establishing a certain sense of pleasure. In addition to the chewing experience, chewing something crisp will also produce a certain "sound effect", which is the sound of crunching. This will give some stimulation to the auditory senses and enrich the overall experience! According to a study by the University of Oxford, the louder people receive the echo of what they eat, they will have the idea that the food is delicious.

To sum up, dry chewing coffee beans can indeed get a certain degree of aroma and more caffeine, while producing a certain sense of pleasure. However, there are more disadvantages than advantages! The shortcomings will be more obvious. Coffee beans not only taste bitter when they are dried, but also suffer from the sticking throat of coffee grounds. Even if you roast coffee beans very deep to reduce the negative feelings caused by wood fiber, the health problems caused by overeating are still very worrying. Therefore, Qianjie does not recommend you to chew coffee beans, you can try it a little, but you can't be addicted to it. Coffee beans still have to be extracted into coffee, which is the most appropriate to drink! Because it is the best choice for taste buds and health.

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