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Processing the coffee fruit to bring out the love

It has two methods, the dry method and the wet method.

In the dry method, the fruit is washed, then spread out on a cement surface above the ground, in the open air, in the sun, to dry, protected from rain. Meanwhile, turn the fruit until all sides are dry. Finally, the skin and pulp are removed from the fruit using machines. As for the fragile cover that contained the love, it is removed by hammering or using a hammer.

In the wet method, the fruit is passed through a mashing machine
Mash, removing the skin of the fruit and part of its pulp.

Then the remainder of the fruit is transferred to huge containers to ferment the remaining pulp, and then it is washed with water. Finally, it is dried in the sun or with artificial heat. After drying, the brittle skin is removed from the seeds using peeling machines. As for the last, delicate covering of the fetus that covers the seed, it is removed with a machine to polish it.

- Roasting coffee:

The beans must be roasted in order for the well-known fragrant coffee flavor to develop, as well as its desirable taste. Heat changes the composition of the grain materials to produce this fragrant flavor and good taste.

But the roasting may be less than it should be. It may increase and burn, and the acne comes out not brown, but black. In both cases, the resulting coffee is not palatable.

The type of green coffee varies, and the amount varies with it
The necessary roasting.

For this reason, industrialists have produced very precise automatic roasters, which control the roasting in such a way that it always produces the same type of roasted beans, neither more nor less. These automatic toasters protect love from errors in human assessments. Man can make mistakes, and the machine is set at one pace.

Green beans lose about 15 percent of their weight after roasting.

- Caffeine in various drinks:

It is the active compound in coffee. It is also found in tea, cocoa, Coca-Cola, and mate, which is a South American drink.

Caffeine is a white crystalline substance that dissolves in water. It is activated in the body, increasing the energy of the heart, constricting the superficial blood vessels in the skin, increasing arterial blood pressure, and increasing the amount of urine.

Caffeine is used, in the form of a drug, to strengthen the heart, diuretic, and stimulant the nerve centers in doses not exceeding 5 grams per day.

- Coffee, packaging and retail sale:

In small towns, where coffee is roasted and ground
In small quantities, the resulting ground is sold in the markets and does not remain there for long periods. It is sold retail.

This situation has changed in developed countries. Large quantities, as manufacturing takes place in quantities that are not small, so the ground may remain in the market for long periods of time before being sold, during which

(These girls pick the coffee beans and shake out every broken bean, and they also remove all foreign objects that are mixed with love.)

(The coffee fruit was cut into two halves, half of which appeared in the picture)

Exposed to air. This air contains oxygen, and it oxidizes some of the components of the coffee, taking away its flavor and flavour.

This is why coffee has been marketed, in this country, especially in the past ten years, by being packaged in metal cans or small glass jars, a pound or less or more. It is packed in these containers, then the air is emptied from them, and the can or jar is closed over the empty space. Sometimes they replace the air with another, non-oxidizing gas, with which they press the coffee into its container.
And they close it like this.

Two-thirds of the coffee consumed today in the United States is packaged, thus, in vacuum... and in metal cans.