What Is Green Coffee? By Richard Johnstonn
It takes 4-5 years for a Coffee plant to start to produce flowers after it's planted. Fruits of the plants (commonly known as coffee cherries) appear on the flowers. It takes about 8 months for cherries to ripen and turn into a red color from green. The entire crop can be picked up at one time by machine or hand, but the most practiced and better way is to only pick the ripe ones by hand since the red ones have lower organic content and higher aromatic oil making them more fragrant, mellow and smooth.
Processing: Wet Process: in this process the seeds/beans are removed the fruit covering, then are immersed in water bad or unripe will float and the good ones sink to the bottom.
Dry Process: This is one of the oldest methods of processing coffee, cherries are first cleaned and placed in the sun to be dried before winnowing, winnowing is the process in which a large sieve is used where all the unwanted cherries and other material can be separated. Now the final step milling starts when all the finer cleaning and polishing comes into the play before the coffee is sent to markets, the process includes hulling, polishing, cleaning and grading. Coffee lovers love green coffee because of the freshness they receive in every sip. Green coffee once roasted turns into dark color and may not stay fresh or aromatic once sold to a consumer for too long, consumers buy coffee and roast it according to their needs, green coffee can be roasted in number of ways from specialty equipments to non specialty equipments like a stove top pop corn popper, an air pop corn popper or an oven, whatever method you choose it does not take more then 10 minutes.
Latest research has proved green coffee is very effective on fats and greatly reduces it. It is a top choice for people looking to reduce weight while researchers at University of California believe that extracts of green coffee beans can fight AIDS.
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