Is there really a difference between male and female coffee beans? Coffee common sense

If you are interested in Baidu, you will see some articles describing the separation of male and female coffee beans, and mention that the flavor of male beans is better than that of mother beans. In fact, as a hermaphroditic, self-pollinating plant, there is no distinction between male and female in the seeds of coffee trees. In a normal fresh coffee fruit, the spherical coffee seed is composed of two coffee beans together, the plane is relatively inward and the arc is outward. This common form of coffee beans is called Flat Berry, which is also called mother bean.

A coffee fruit usually produces two beans and sometimes one, three or even four beans. Let's focus on the production of a bean. For some reason, the two seeds inside the coffee fruit did not split, and after the initial processing, they showed a complete ellipsoidal granular coffee bean, which we call Peaberry, or Caracoli, that is, the so-called male bean. Many coffee lovers love round beans, but in the actual coffee bean trade, the price of coffee round beans is indeed slightly higher than that of flat beans in the same producing area. So, under what circumstances will lead to the emergence of round beans? First, growing at the tip of a coffee branch may cause round beans to grow in the coffee fruit. Second, prolonged drought or malnutrition or blooming too early and too late lead to the unsound internal development of the coffee fruit. Due to the competition for survival, one bean "eats" another bean, giving birth to round beans. Third, the coffee fruit suffers from diseases and insect pests during its growth, which leads to the imperfect internal development of the coffee fruit and gives birth to round beans.

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