Coffee beans are the part of coffee fruit.-how do coffee beans make coffee?

Coffee beans are the part of coffee fruit.-how do coffee beans make coffee?

Coffee tree evergreen leaves, the leaf tip is more pointed, and is two opposite groups. The surface of the leaf is dark green, the back is light green, and the blooming flower is pure white. There are five stamens and one pistil in the flower, and the petals are usually five, but some have six or even eight petals. The flowers will give off a jasmine-like fragrance, but the flowers will wither in about three or four days. At first, the fruit is the same dark green as the leaf surface, but as it becomes more and more mature, it will turn yellow, then red, and finally crimson.

The fruit of coffee is formed by the outer skin, pulp, endocarp, silver skin, and the seeds wrapped in the innermost layers (coffee beans). The seeds are located in the center of the fruit, and the parts outside the seeds are of little use. Generally speaking, there are two pairs of seeds in the fruit, but occasionally there is only one seed in the fruit, which is called fruit bean. In order to show symmetry, we call the fruit with two pairs of seeds as female beans. There are at least 40 "species" of the genus Coffee, among which the more practical cultivated species are three original species: plateau cultivation, lowland cultivation, and minimum cultivation.

Coffee beans basically grow opposite to each other. So one side of the coffee bean will be flat. This kind of coffee bean with one side, we call it "flat bean".

Some coffee fruits grow only one seed (5%-20% of the total), which is due to fertilization or environmental factors, resulting in a serious deterioration of the seed growth on one side, which looks round (in this case, the seeds on the other side will not be produced), this round coffee bean, we call it "round bean".

In the coffee bean selection process (the process of distinguishing the size and picking out the poor quality coffee beans), the "round beans" should be selected from the "flat beans". As the number of coffee beans is rare, they should be sold differently from the coffee beans that they are used to. Coffee beans in Brazil, Blue Mountain and other places are very famous, and the price is higher than that of coffee beans. But for farmers, there should be even one coffee bean in a fruit, but only one grows, which will greatly affect the output of coffee beans, so this is not a happy thing.

Cocoa (Cacao) growth conditions are very harsh, only between 20 degrees south and north latitudes, 30-300m above sea level, 1000 mm rainfall in tropical rain forest areas can grow cacao trees. The growth of cacao trees needs sufficient sunlight and temperature, but it can not be irradiated directly, so there must be good shading and wind protection measures. Generally, banana trees and cocoa trees are mixed to provide shade for cocoa trees, while their height can be limited to about 6 meters, making the cocoa fruit easier to harvest.

Cocoa beans can lift cocoa butter (cocoa butter) is one of the main raw materials for making chocolate, and the leftovers are made into cocoa powder.