What is Arabica coffee, and why does every single brand of coffee have 100% of it?
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What is Arabica coffee, and why does every single brand of coffee have 100% of it?
You can check the answer of the people under the question at Quora “what does arabica coffee mean“
Arabica beans are considered more desirable due to complexity and flavor. Most fine coffees are if this variety. The other common variety is Robusta bean, more bitter, and higher in caffeine. Robusta beans are commonly used for instant coffee and blended for espresso coffee as they help produce a better crema.
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Well, every single brand of coffee doesn’t have it.
It is a better variety of beans than Robusto coffee, and cheaper coffees are Robusto, while higher priced coffees are Arabica.
You wouldn’t want to mix them.
It’s not true that every single brand of coffee is 100% Arabica.
Italian-style espresso usually has a lot of Robusta in it, especially southern-italian espresso. I usually drink a 50/50 blend from a very nice roastery in Zürich. But they now have a 80% Robusta blend which is even better…
There is also 100% Robusta and no matter what some people say or think, it can be wonderful. Of course, it depends on your taste, but it sure is high quality. There are many roasteries that sell high quality Robusta.
100% Arabica, it’s marketing. Arabica is a varation of the coffee bean, not a quality label. Robusta is as good (or bad) as Arabica. But it is very different in taste.
Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica or Arabian Coffee) is just one of the 70+ species that make up the Coffea genus in the botanic order. But of the 70+ species on offer in the Coffea genus, only two have proven over the years to have any commercial value in terms of marketable taste: (1) high grown Coffea arabica which contributes about 70% of world’s coffee production and (2) low grown Coffea canephora (commonly called Robusta) making up most of the remaining production, although West African Coffea liberica and Coffea excelsa do contribute about 1-2% of the world’s gross coffee production.
But Coffea arabica is considered to have a dramatically superior cup quality when compared to all other species, and so understandably, all fine, speciality, and fancy grade coffees come from the Coffea arabica species. See the best Arabica coffees have a higher concentration of aldehydes which are the most delicate and volatile aroma compounds found in roasted coffee and give coffee its most desirable sweet, fruit/floral-like aromas. Driving the price up for Arabica is the acknowledged taste benefit that these fine, mild, aromatic, generally full-bodied coffee beans create compared with Robusta and its more woody, sharp and astringent flavors. So the much cheaper and lower cup quality Coffea canephora (Robusta), typically goes into the production of instant coffee.
Given that Coffea arabica is the most widely produced coffee species in the world and that it is deemed by the market to have a dramatically superior cup quality over all other coffee species, is it any wonder that most speciality coffee brands like to boast that 100% of their coffee offer is made up of the top quality Coffea arabica species and that it contains none of the lesser quality coffee species.
See there are some brands that blend the much cheaper Coffea canephora (Robusta) in with their Coffea arabica for increased profit reasons … although not always. Sometimes the added Robusta is done to give a special taste dimension that is not available in a 100% Coffea arabica offer. I talk about this here: The case for the humble Robusta coffee bean. [ https://espressocoffee.quora.com/The-case-for-the-humble-Robusta-coff…
There are 3 types of coffee bean, arabica, robusta and the least popular Liberica. Arabica are more floral, fruity, sweet kind of bean, whereas robusta is more bold, gritty, intense bean. commonly, commercial beans are a blend of arabica and robusta, the strong aroma comes from the arabica and the intense coffee flavor and body from robusta. But now, the consumer’s taste has change, they want to drink a much more aromatic without the intense carbon-bitter like taste hence, choosing a 100% arabica bean.
Arabica is the species of coffee plant most commonly used, to be precise the species is Coffea arabica. (and to be more precise, it’s often cultivar varieties of this species)
Other species -are- also used, mainly Coffea canephora (var.”Robusta”), so it’s untrue to say that every single brand has 100% arabica. Depending on who’s figures you believe, Arabica accounts for 70–80% of the total world coffee production.
Note Robusta generally has a higher caffeine content than Arabica.
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Arabica is a coffee specie (Coffea Arabica) that’s become the most dominant type of coffee produced globally. As coffee gained its popularity in the earlier centuries, the demand shot up and naturally, plantations opted to cultivate more and more of it to sustain this growing demand.
Arabica is hailed to be the more premium coffee given its sweeter and softer taste unlike its cousin Robusta (Coffea Canephora) , which has a stronger and harsher taste. Robusta coffee is also cheaper to produce because it is easier to grow as they are more resistant to diseases and insects.
Coffee companies are known to mix Robusta coffee with the Arabica coffee that they’re selling, and while you’re seeing 100% Arabica on the coffee bags, that’s just really about 70% Arabica and 30% Robusta.
Arabica is the most flavorful of the coffee species. People are marketing, 100% arabica because consumers are now more aware that big coffee companies are blending cheaper beans, like Robusta, to bring the price down on their product and this is their way of showing a “quality” product.
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