Why do we call them coffee beans when they are actually berry pits?
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Why do we call them coffee beans when they are actually berry pits?
You can check the answer of the people under the question at Quora “are coffee beans actually beans“
Why are berry pits called “pits”?
Why not seeds?
It could be because once the seeds of the coffee plant are roasted, the dark brown bean-like appearance was noted — they do look more like beans than seeds—and it led to this naming convention. Then it was universally adopted, even thought it’s not scientifically or organically accurate.
Language often works like that.
Coffee may be the only fruit-producing plant that growers cultivate exclusively for the seeds, and dismiss the fruit.
Do birds, or humans, ever eat the fruit of the coffee plant? I’ve often wondered what the fruit tastes like.
Basically because it looks like a bean – it’s that simple. It is technically the seed or pit of a berry although it is more like a stone fruit perhaps than a berry – and in fact the fruit that the coffee bean sits inside is referred to technically as the cherry. You can get some basic information about the actual botany and so forth here: Coffee Plant: Arabica and Robusta
Colloquial usage. Just ad it to the list of improperly named foods.
Raspberries, Blackberries and Strawberries are not actually berries, but “Aggregate Fruits.” Some foods that actually are botanically berries that we don’t call berries are: bananas, tomatoes, watermelons, pumpkins, eggplants and yes, coffee is a epigynous berry.
A cashew is not actually a nut, but like “coffee bean” is the seed. You find it inside of the cashew apple, which is actually not an a…