How many types of green coffee are there?
Basically, there are two types of green coffee: Arabica coffee and Robusta coffee. Arabica coffee, also known as tea coffee, is grown in places with altitudes of 1,000m or more with cool temperatures and large day-night temperature differences. Arabica usually has four popular strains: Caturra, Bourbon, Mocha, Typica and Catimor. Unlike arabica, robusta coffee is often grown in low hills and mountains, is a sun-loving coffee with higher temperatures and is highly resistant to disease. In addition, there is excelsa coffee (also known as jackfruit coffee) also grown scattered in Vietnam.
How is green coffee classified?
After grinding dried coffee beans, we get green coffee beans and coffee husks. These coffee beans are collectively called bucket coffee because they have not been classified, so they have beans of different sizes. Depending on the customer's needs, green coffee will be sifted to filter out particles of different sizes. High quality types include green coffee with sieve 16, sieve 18 and sieve 19, sieve 20. However, sieve 16 and sieve 18 are the most popular types for making roasted coffee beans. Smaller sieves such as sieve 14 and sieve 15 with lower quality are often used as mixing materials to reduce costs. Or sieve 13, commonly used to make instant coffee.
In addition to arabica, robusta and excelsa, we sometimes hear the name loris coffee. Culi coffee is not a coffee strain. On the contrary, loli is a special coffee bean with only one bean. Normally, a coffee cherry will have two beans. With some special coffee cherries, these two beans stick together and form a single bean, called single-bean coffee or peaberry. Therefore, we will have arabica loris, robusta loris and excelsa loris.
Characteristics of green coffee
Green coffee can be stored for a long time without losing its flavor because its moisture content is usually quite low (12% to 13%). Depending on needs, green coffee can be polished or unpolished. Coffee is a popular drink, so the transaction value of green coffee is currently very large. On the world commodity trading market, green coffee has a trading volume second only to oil. They are often traded via commodity exchanges with various derivative trading instruments.
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