Coffee is a brewed beverage with a bitter, acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America,...
The ripened fruits of the coffee shrubs, known as coffee cherries, are processed by disengaging the coffee seeds from their coverings and from the pulp and by drying the seeds from an original moisture content of 65 70 percent water by weight to 12...