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People who are not suitable for drinking coffee and taboos
The doctor warned against drinking coffee on an empty stomach, because coffee can stimulate gastric acid secretion, especially people with gastric ulcers should be more cautious. Coffee as a drink, drinking, according to individual circumstances, enough, generally speaking in nutrition or emphasis on a balanced diet and less use of spicy stimulating food.
Introduction to Coffee
The word "Coffee" comes from a small town in Ethiopia called kaffa, and in Greek "Kaweh" means "strength and passion". Tea, coffee and cocoa are called the three major drinks in the world.
Explanation of coffee-related nouns
Flavor [Flavor]: the overall impression of aroma, acidity, and mellowness. Acidity [Acidity]: the strong acidity of all coffee grown on the plateau. The sour here is different from bitterness and Sour, and has nothing to do with pH value. It refers to a fresh and lively quality that promotes coffee to exert its functions of invigorating the mind and clearing the taste. The acidity of coffee
How to drink coffee
The use of coffee cups is usually served in a pocket cup when drinking coffee after a meal. The ear of this kind of cup is so small that you can't get your fingers out. But even if you use a larger cup, don't put your finger through the ear and carry the cup. The correct way to hold a coffee cup is to hold the handle of the cup by your thumb and forefinger and then pick up the cup. Coffee sugar method when adding sugar to coffee, sugar can be used in coffee.
Analysis of equipment and usage of Coffee
Siphon pot (Syphon) siphon pot is one of the most popular coffee brewing methods in cafes. Principle: under the burning of alcohol lamp, when the water temperature in the lower container reaches 92 ℃, the water is sucked into the upper container with coffee powder, and after soaking and stirring, the coffee is returned. Degree of grinding: slightly thicker than powder, close to special fine granulated sugar. Siphon cooking has a kind of chemistry.
Guidelines for the classification and purchase of coffee
There are two categories of coffee of important economic value: Arabian beans and East African beans. Arabian coffee grows best at high altitude. the flavor of this coffee is much more refined than other coffee, and its caffeine accounts for only 1% of the total weight of coffee. East African coffee has a mellow taste, strong resistance to diseases and insect pests, and yield per plant.
Explanation of the main ingredients of coffee
1. Caffeine has a particularly 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. two。 After the tannic acid is boiled, the tannic acid will be decomposed into pyrouric acid.
Major coffee-producing countries
Latin America (Central and South America) Brazil: Santos, Bahia, Cerrado, Mogiana Mexico: Coatepec, Huatusco, Orizaba, Maragogype, Tapanchula, Huixtla, Plumakois
The ingredients in coffee
1. Caffeine has a particularly bitter taste, stimulating the central nervous system, heart and respiratory system. Moderate caffeine can also reduce muscle fatigue and promote digestive secretion. Because it promotes kidney function, it has a diuretic effect and helps the body expel excess sodium ions from the body. Too much caffeine can lead to caffeine poisoning. 2. Tannin When boiled, tannins decompose into pyrolytic acid.
Introduction to Blue Mountain Coffee
Blue Mountain Coffee is recognized as the best in the world because of its unique growing environment and the strict management of the Jamaican government.
Introduction of coffee species
There are about 60 kinds of coffee, but there are mainly two kinds of coffee grown in commercial areas.
Coffee classification
Special classification system of coffee: 1. Subgenus Coffea: 2. Malagasy coffee subgenus: 3. Subgenus Pala Coffee: 4. Age coffee subgenus: a, red coffee group: B, thick-skinned coffee group: C, Mozambican coffee group: d, black fruit coffee group E, dwarf coffee group: red fruit coffee group: a) Arabica species: Tibica varieties: (Tp)
Five commonly used coffee sugars
A cup of black coffee with different sugars will have a very different flavor. Among them, white sugar, square sugar, white granulated sugar, rock sugar and yellow sugar are the most common types.
African coffee-producing countries
1. Kenya Kenya grows high-quality Arabica coffee beans, coffee beans almost absorb the essence of the whole coffee cherry, has a slightly sour, thick aroma, is very popular with Europeans, especially in the United Kingdom, Kenya coffee has surpassed Costa Rica coffee, become one of the most popular coffee. Aromas of wine and flowers, full texture, small and round, due to
Coffee trees, coffee flowers, coffee fruits
The coffee tree is an evergreen tree with small white flowers and green fruit that does not turn red until it is ripe.
A cup of Guatemalan Antigua coffee
A cup of Antigua coffee in Guatemala seems to let us see the sudden disappearance of the mysterious Mayans multiply in the ancient land, history brushed away their existence, history has achieved their eternity.
Coffee knowledge Altitude
High mountain areas are generally foggy, sunlight is affected by fog beads, so that part of the visible light is enhanced, thus enhancing the photosynthesis effect; reason 2, high mountain areas lush forests, played some in the temperature, rainfall, terrain and soil under the premise of these four elements are complete, coffee trees especially like frequent fog and large temperature difference between day and night microclimate characteristics. If an area is not at an altitude
Columbia Coffee Teaching
Colombian coffee has the characteristics of sweet in acid and flat in bitterness. because of its suitable concentration, Colombian coffee is often used in high-grade mixed coffee. Have a kind of bitter experience, clear and astringent as life, and bitterness is necessary in life, stop at the end of the tongue is a thorough recollection of the past. Suffering is pain, clear and quiet, the last fragrance has become a spiritual victory.
Instant coffee is made from Robusta.
Because of the cost, instant coffee of course chooses Robusta coffee, which is produced in Vietnam, Hainan, Yunnan and some African countries. In addition, broken beans, bad beans and maldeveloped varieties are often baked and ground directly without screening. Anyway, it is only the extraction of caffeine, and the lack of aroma can be reconciled by all kinds of flavors and additives.
Yibao White Coffee, Malaysia's specialty drink
Yibao White Coffee, a special drink of Malaysia, has become one of the world-famous coffee. The name of white coffee is not named because of the color of coffee, but without adding any ingredients in the roasting process of coffee beans, so white in the name of white coffee also means pure and pure.