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Wholly Bean Project
WHY? There is more to coffee than being just a drink. Coffee is not only about caffeine but needs to be seen in its entireness. Coffee by and waste products are an environmental delict. Causing awareness of our waste’s potentials. If we would be aware of all our waste’s potentials we maybe wouldn’t throw away so much stuff so easily… WHAT? Putting coffee in another...
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Brands, Communication and Values
Marketing and advertisement play an important role in the selling and the image creation of coffee and its effects. It is not only a drink that is sold, but a values, a lifestyle, ideals, images. We don’t consume coffee just only because we like it, but we feel that we need it and this is not only related to its intrinsic properties, but related to the imaginary that is sold with it. We...
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Coffee as Fashion
Only Grown Ups Drink Coffee Anthropologist William Roseberry (1996) reports that coffee drinkers would have been hard pressed to find specialty coffee in the United States in the 1970s—most of the coffee in the groceries came in cans, “the roasts were light and bland,” and the decaf versions were terrible (764). There was little exciting about coffee, and in fact, coffee drinking had been on a...
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Types of Packaging and Shelf Life
One-way Valve Bag Any amount of oxygen absorbed by coffee eventually leads to staleness. However, as the result of sugar browning reactions during roasting, freshly roasted coffee exudes carbon dioxide for up to a week in its whole bean form. For this reason, the highest quality coffees are typically packaged as soon as possible after roasting in a moisture-proof laminated bag containing a...
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Coffee Waste
Coffee grounds contain still a lot of their active ingredients and benefits. What we throw away every morning actually has a lot of potential if only we knew it. Along with other chemicals, coffee grounds contain nitrogen phosphoric acid, potash, many minerals including trace minerals carbohydrates and some sugars which makes them a loved “food” for plants that love/need “ an “acid diet”. The...
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Coffee as Fuel
„Coffee grounds won’t solve the world’s energy problem. Even if all the coffee grounds in the world were used to make fuel, the amount produced would be less than 1 percent of the diesel used in the United States annually. But our objective is to take waste material and convert it to fuel.” Apart from being the early morning fuel for billions of office workers, researches from the...
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Generally Safe
There is much research concerning both the negative effects of coffee drinking as well as the benefits. Much of the press focuses on caffeine; however there are many other not so researched chemicals that contribute to both the negatives and the positives. At the moment coffee is seen as “generally safe”. Many of the Pro’s and Con’s, from various studies that can easily be found on...
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Coffee By-Products
Coffee with imperfections, such as black or dark brown color, insect damage, spots, bits, from immature fruits, etc., is graded during processing and termed as low-grade coffee beans. These beans comprise about 15–20% of coffee production. On the other side, spent coffee, viz. residues from the instant (soluble) coffee production after extraction and concentration of water solubles, is also an...
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More Than Caffeine
Coffee is More Coffee is not only about caffeine and there is more to coffee than being “just” a really good drink. What most people aren’t aware about is that coffee is the number one source of antioxidants in our daily diet. Chlorogenic Acids An important family of chemicals present in coffee is called chlorogenic acids. Scientists are discovering that chlorogenic acids may provide...
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Economy
The World Coffee Market Experts on the world coffee market often make reference to the “coffee paradox”. A coffee crisis in producing countries with a trend towards lower prices, declining producer incomes and profits with important consequences for the export revenues of leading coffee exporting countries and the living standards of millions of people in developing nations A coffee ‘boom’ in...
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Production and Climate
The Raw Bean Coffee science begins with the growing process, where many factors influence the overall quality and chemical composition of the raw coffee bean: the location, altitude and weather of the plantation, the composition of the soil and its fertilization, and finally the cultivation, harvesting and drying methods used. Roasting Science Most of the delightful aromatic character of...
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Hyperactive Goats
There are many stories and legends about how and where coffee was discovered. It is said that when Maometto, a friar, was feeling ill, archangel Gabriel descended from heaven handing him over a potion deriving directly from Allah. It was dark as the holy stone of Mecca, called “qawa” and able to cure him from his illness. Another ancient stories narrates of a drink, fountain of ecstasy, able to...
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