The difference between male beans and female beans is where coffee beans are common sense

The picture above shows "male bean" on the left and "mother bean" on the right.

Let's learn a few things first. First of all, the coffee tree itself is not divided into male and female trees. In fact, coffee flower is a plant with both male and female organs, belonging to the family Rubiaceae. The coffee bean itself is the core seed of the coffee fruit before it is roasted, and it can grow on its own after falling into the soil, even if only one tree can grow the coffee fruit. Since it is hermaphroditic, there is no difference between male and female trees, and naturally there should be no difference between male and female beans. Furthermore, the original English word of "Gongdou" is "Peaberry" or the abbreviation "PB", but it is not called "Male Beans". The word "Gongdou" is just a common name in Chinese. in fact, he has another name, "Yuandou".

The left is the flat bean coffee fruit, the right is the round bean coffee fruit, the appearance is smaller.

Public beans (round beans) are classified as defective beans in botanical theory for several reasons: one is that coffee beans suffer from diseases and insect pests before bearing fruit, or it may be caused by coffee trees suffering from prolonged drought or malnutrition. In addition, coffee beans at the ends of branches also have a higher chance of forming round beans, which may be due to poor growth due to more opportunities to be exposed. When the normal form of coffee fruit is peeled, there are two coffee nuts (seeds) inside, called "Type-1". This is the most normal form of coffee beans, that is, the mother beans or flat beans in the theory of male and female beans. The other is the elliptical shape of "Type-2", which has only one seed, which is what we call round beans. In fact, there is only a difference in growth form between the two, not a gender distinction. The common name in Chinese is indeed easy to be misunderstood.

Some coffee lovers think that public beans have better mellow thickness and charming aroma, and taste sweeter. In addition, because of its relatively scarce production, Peaberry has become a commercial means to be bid up and sold at a high price, but in fact, public beans are sometimes discarded because they are regarded as defective beans in some producing areas. To them, public beans have little commercial value.

It is still difficult to determine whether public beans (round beans) taste better in the end. At present, the common round beans on the market, well-known are Hawaii KONA round beans, Tanzania round beans, Jamaica Zhenglan Mountain coffee round beans and so on. Usually as long as the price of round beans is bound to be high, whether it is worth it or not depends on the ruler in the mind of the drinker.

Conclusion: male beans and female beans are actually the wrong name, the so-called male beans should be called round beans and female beans refer to normal beans, but this term is more misleading, because there are no male and female coffee beans. Generally speaking, two slices of coffee beans are semi-oval. Generally speaking, round beans are more easily heated evenly, so they get twice the result with half the effort when baked, so there is a saying that round beans taste better, and because the number is too small, only a few coffee beans are round beans in an average of 100 coffee beans, so it also means that things are rare. If you select raw coffee beans full of round beans to sell, the price will be one level higher than that of ordinary beans of the same variety.