Coffee tree culture, origin legends, main ingredients

Major component editor

Fibre

The fiber of raw beans will be carbonized after baking and combine with caramel to form the hue of coffee.

Protein

The main source of calories, the proportion is not high. Most of the protein in coffee powder will not dissolve out when brewing coffee, so the intake is limited.

Sugar

Raw coffee beans contain about 8% sugar. After roasting, most of the sugars are converted to caramel, which browns the coffee and combines with tannins to produce sweetness.

Mineral substance

Contains a small amount of lime, iron, phosphorus, sodium carbonate and so on.

Caffeine

It has a particularly strong bitter taste and stimulates the central nervous system, heart and respiratory system. Appropriate amount of caffeine can also reduce muscle fatigue and promote digestive juice secretion. Because it promotes kidney function, it is diuretic and helps the body to expel excess sodium ions from the body. But eating too much can lead to caffeine poisoning.

Tannic acid

Boiled tannic acid will decompose into pyrouric acid, so coffee that has been brewed for too long will taste worse.

Fat: the most important ones are acid fat and volatile fat.

Acid fat

That is, fat contains acid, its strength will vary according to the type of coffee.

Volatile fat

It is the main source of coffee aroma. It is a kind of aromatic substance that emits about 40 kinds of aroma.

Origin legend editor

The Story of the Shepherd

The Story of the Shepherd: according to Rothschild Neroy (1613-1707), a Roman linguist, about

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In the sixth century, when Kardai, an Arab shepherd, was herding sheep to the Isobian prairie for grazing, he was surprised to see that each goat was extremely excited and excited. After careful observation, he found that these sheep were excited only after eating some kind of red fruit. Cardai tasted some of them curiously and found that these fruits were very sweet and delicious, and he felt very refreshed after eating them. From then on, he often drove the sheep to eat this delicious fruit. Later, a Muslim passed through here and took some of this incredible red fruit home and distributed it to other parishioners, so its magical effect spread.

The Story of Shack Omar

Other legends are Shack, the guardian saint of the Arabian Peninsula. Chuck Omar, a disciple of Caldi, was a highly respected and beloved chief in Mocha, but he was expelled by his people for committing a crime. Shack. Omar was exiled to Osama in the country, where he stumbled upon the fruit of coffee in 1258. One day, Omar was walking hungry in the mountains and saw the birds on the branches pecking at the fruit of the trees. He took the fruit back and boiled it with water, but it unexpectedly gave out a rich and attractive fragrance, and the original feeling of fatigue was eliminated after drinking it. Omar collected many of these magical fruits, and when they met someone who was sick, they made the fruit into soup for them to drink and refreshed. Because he did good everywhere and was loved by believers, his sins were soon forgiven, and when he returned to Mocha, he was praised for finding this fruit, and people did not worship him as a saint. At that time, the magic cure was said to be coffee.

The Story of Deckley

This is a romantic story. Gabriel, a French naval officer on the island of Matinique, circa 1720 or 1723. Mathieu. De. As he was about to leave Paris, Klee managed to get some coffee trees and decided to take them back to Martinique. He had been taking good care of the saplings and keeping them in a glass box on the deck to protect them from sea water and heat. De. Klee was threatened by pirates during the journey, experienced the storm, and the jealousy and destruction of his fellow ship, and even saved his own water to water the sapling when drinking water was scarce. His coffee tree finally took root in Martinique and got its first harvest in 1726. It is said that by 1777 Martinique had 18791680 coffee trees, Gabriel. Mathieu. De. Klee played an important role. Gabriel. Mathieu. De. Klee died in Paris on November 30, 1724, and in 1918 a monument was built for him at the Ford Botanical Garden in Martinique, France.