Get to know your Coffee

Coffee, the second most popular beverage in the world and first choice of Canadians. In North America 50.8% male and 49.2% of females drink coffee every day. On an average North Americans drink at least two cup of coffee daily. The first cup; as being the obvious to start their day for that energy boost from the caffeine content in it and second one around lunch.

 So the question arise that what do we know about coffee? Not much? Don’t worry our blog is here for the rescue. Let’s start from what does coffee means; it is an Arabic word which means ‘wine of the beans’. Coffee is so valuable that it is the second most traded commodity in this world, only next to petroleum.  

We all have seen those beautiful tiny beans of coffee, they are not as easy as buying a cup of coffee. There is a lot of hard work and efforts of around 20 million people employed in the coffee industry in one way or other.

There are two types of coffee beans

• Arabica
• Robusta

Arabica is the most consumed coffee bean (70%) as it is mild and aromatic whereas Robusta (consumed by 30%) is bitter tasting but has around 50% more caffeine content in it.

We all know how to get a coffee but do we all know how coffee is produced? Coffee beans have a long lifecycle which starts from harvesting and ends on roasting (the most important step where the flavour and aroma is provided to the beans).

 Thanks for reading our post this is the first one we will be posting a lot more detailed information so if you would like to know more then do comeback next week.

Fun Fact: It takes five years for a coffee tree to reach full maturity.

What is Bean Belt?

Welcome back to Bean&Machine where you get a lot more to know about coffee last post we introduced you the blog with a little introduction to Arabica and Robusta beans; some stats about the coffee and defining the word coffee itself!

This post will be about what Bean Belt is? And various different parts of world where coffee is grown.

To start with what is Bean Belt? The area between Tropics of Capricorn and Tropics of Cancer on the globe is considered the Bean Belt because of the climate conditions and the special type of soil. In fact a coffee plant to grow properly needs rich soil and a mild temperature, with lots of rain and shaded sun. This is the best place to grow coffee as a good soil; a good climate and a proper altitude affect how the coffee beans will taste.  

  

This is a map displaying the bean belt; where yellow color depicts the bean belt and green color is the countries where coffee is majorly produced.  

Top ten countries according to coffee production:

1. Brazil
2. Vietnam
3. Colombia
4. Indonesia
5. Ethiopia
6. India
7. Mexico
8. Guatemala
9. Peru
10. Honduras

Now to talk about where did coffee came from, Ethiopia a country which falls under East Africa of African continent. The legends tells that the first coffee tree was discovered here; with a logical explanation as still the wild coffee tree forest are still the primary source of harvested coffee. In addition the first country to commercially cultivate coffee was Yemen (a country in Arabian Peninsula). Unfortunately, in this country the production of coffee is not that big because of unsuitable climate conditions. Specifically less rainfall and arid soil, this results in smaller coffee bean size.   

That’s is all for this week do come back and check our blog for more information on coffee.

Fun Fact: Drinking coffee can increase the metabolism by 3-11%, this chemical plays a vital role in fat burning.