What is a red coffee bean?
What we call a coffee bean is actually the seeds of a cherry-like fruit. Coffee trees produce berries, called coffee cherries, that turn bright red when they are ripe and ready to pick. The fruit is found in clusters along the branches of the tree. The blend of Robusta beans we’ve selected for NESCAFÉ® Classic are carefully roasted to allow those familiar flavours and aromas to shine through.When coffee is processed, the goo around the seed and outer fruit is stripped back to leave a powerful seed that is then roasted. Like almost every other seed on the planet, you can safely nibble away on a coffee bean, and it’s a food source that goes back way further than our modern espresso machines!It is possible to germinate a coffee plant from seed, with a few caveats. Unless you live by someone who has a fruiting coffee plant, seeds are tough to obtain. Some how-to articles mention buying green coffee from a roaster, but they need to be as fresh as possible.
What is the difference between red and green coffee?
Red coffee cherries are ripened on the shrub/tree. These are the fruits you want. If you pick the green ones, they are not ripe and simply not ready. Unripe coffee will not process well and when roasted will be grassy and vegetal-tasting. The coffee bean is actually a seed inside a coffee cherry, which is a small fruit. Coffee cherries can be red, yellow, or green. However, green color means that the cherry is not ripe yet. You can harvest coffee when it is yellow or red, which depends on the varietal of coffee.
Does red coffee bean have caffeine?
Coffee beans naturally contain caffeine as one of their soluble compounds, in fact the whole coffee plant contains caffeine from the leaves to the fruit which can be dried and consumed as a tea called cascara tea. Robusta beans are famed for their high caffeine content, which is almost double that of regular Arabica beans.Arabic coffee, known in Arabic as qahwa (Arabic: قهوة), is a version of the brewed coffee of Coffea arabica beans.Arabica is the most popular type of coffee, hands down. Depending on who you ask, many coffee enthusiasts prefer using Arabica beans due to its taste. Typically used for black coffee, Arabica beans have a sweeter, more complex flavor that you can drink straight.Robusta coffee beans contain nearly double the caffeine content of Arabica beans, making them the clear winner for those seeking maximum energy impact. These beans typically contain 2. Arabica’s 1.