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Introduction to the flavor and taste characteristics of Arabica coffee manor in Indonesia

Published: 2025-08-21 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2025/08/21, West Africa, the origin of coffee grown in Liberia, has a strong adaptability to all kinds of environments, such as high or low temperature, humidity or dryness, except that it is not resistant to leaf rust and its flavor is worse than that of Arabica, so it is only traded or planted in some West African countries (Libya, C ô te d'Ivoire, etc.). Among the coffee in circulation in the world market, about

West Africa is the origin of Liberian coffee. It has strong adaptability to various environments such as high temperature or low temperature, humidity or dryness. It is not resistant to leaf rust and its flavor is worse than Arabica. Therefore, it is only traded domestically in some West African countries (Libya, Cote d'Ivoire, etc.) or planted for research.

About 65% of coffee circulating in the world market is Arabica

According to the International Coffee Organization (ICO), excluding domestic transactions in coffee-producing countries, about 65% of coffee circulating in the world market is Arabica and 35% is Robusta. Arabica beans are characterized by thin, flat particles, while Robusta beans are round and easily distinguishable by shape.

But if you add Arabica/Robusta hybrids-Variedad Colombia, for example, which is the dominant Colombian coffee variety and has a quarter of the Robusta lineage and is therefore resistant to leaf rust and high in yield-and its mutant subspecies, the classification becomes more complex. Some Arabica coffee beans are quite close to the native species, and some Arabica beans are quite similar to the robusta species. Even if coffee is given the same name (from where it comes from), the flavor varies depending on the cultivar. Leaf rust tolerance varieties found in congo, africa, teach arabica species to be more resistant. People like to compare Robusta to Arabica coffee, but Robusta is actually a mutant of Congo (Coffea canephora), so it's Congo that should be compared to Arabica. To this day, however, the name Robusta has become common practice, and it is regarded as the same species as Congo species.

Arabica coffee beans grow at higher elevations in the tropics, where it is cooler and where it is not suitable to grow. Robusta has a distinctive aroma (an off-flavor called "rob flavor," which some people think is a musty odor) and bitterness, which makes up only 2 -3% of the blend coffee and makes the entire cup of coffee Robusta. The flavor is so strong that you might want to consider tasting it directly. It is commonly used in instant coffee (which extracts about twice as much coffee as Arabica), canned coffee, liquid coffee and other industrially produced coffee. Caffeine content is around 3.2%, much higher than Arabica's 1.5%.

The main producing countries of Robusta species are Indonesia, Vietnam and West African countries centered on Cote d'Ivoire, Algeria and Angola

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