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Herbal coffee--the world's next success story?

Published: 2026-06-07 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/06/07, At present, the coffee drunk all over the world is woody coffee, and it is mainly produced in Vietnam, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia and other equatorial regions such as Central America, Africa and Asia. China only Yunnan, Hainan and other subtropical areas have a small amount of planting, output of about 40,000 tons. The global annual consumption of coffee is more than 7 million tons, and China's annual consumption is about 200,000 tons, more than 90% of which depends on imports.

At present, the coffee drunk all over the world is "woody coffee", and it is mainly produced in Vietnam, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia and other equatorial regions such as Central America, Africa and Asia. Only Yunnan, Hainan and other subtropical areas in China have a small amount of cultivation, with an output of about 40,000 tons. The global annual consumption of coffee is more than 7 million tons, and China's annual consumption is about 200,000 tons, more than 90% of which depends on imports. With the development of economy, the improvement of people's living standard, the change of consumption structure and the development of tourism, the consumption of coffee in China and even in the world is increasing year by year, and woody coffee will be in short supply.

Herbal coffee was originally a kind of wild plant of Yunshi subfamily associated with woody coffee trees in Brazil for many years. It is said that as early as 1400 years ago, Zen master Chou of Sui Dynasty of our country used its fruit to make "health tonic tea", which was presented to Sui Emperor as a tribute to the court and became a secret recipe of the court, which was then lost.

In order to explore this new coffee resource, Mr. Li Zhanyi of our country, with the help of nine institutions of higher learning and research units such as Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and many experts and professors, has finally succeeded in cultivating and improving it through more than ten years of hard work since 1988. He has successfully planted it in about 500 counties in 22 provinces, autonomous regions and cities across the country, breaking the situation of woody coffee dominating the world. By utilizing the characteristics of wide planting area, rich nutrition, low cost and high added value of developed products, comprehensive application and development can be carried out to supplement imported woody coffee, which can meet the increasing consumption demand of people for coffee food and has remarkable economic and social benefits. The achievement was listed as a national project by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China in the National Key Promotion Plan for Scientific and Technological Achievements.

According to reports, herbal coffee is completely comparable to woody coffee and has obvious advantages. It is proved by detection that herbal coffee has the components, color, fragrance and taste of woody coffee, the content of fat and starch is similar to woody coffee, the content of protein, amino acid, iron, zinc, calcium, selenium and other trace elements most needed by human body is higher than woody coffee, the caffeine content is moderate, which meets the human body needs standard and international food hygiene index. Toxicity test proves that herbal coffee products are nontoxic and have no three-cause danger. Herbal coffee has diuretic, defecation, eyesight, liver protection, heart strengthening, kidney protection, blood fat reduction, anticancer, weight loss, refreshing, brain refreshing, memory enhancement and anti-aging effects, rich nutrition, is a new resource of health food.

At the end of November 2010, the author met Mr. Wang, who had been working on the industrialization of herbal coffee for many years in Langfang, Hebei Province, and tasted the coffee mixed with woody coffee "Brazil Santos". It felt sticky, smooth and bitter. Because the sample is too few, the author and friends can not do more discussion, in the past to herbal coffee is not very understanding, the above information are from the network search (Baidu encyclopedia), but the author still hopes that the development and utilization of herbal coffee is a very promising career. Like Japan and South Korea, coffee consumption in China is likely to explode in the next three to five years, while the global supply of woody coffee is in short supply, and the development prospects of herbal coffee should be immeasurable. Herbal coffee, perhaps the world's next success story?

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