Coffee Beans & Origins

Coffee beans are responsible for the flavors, aromas, and character we experience in every cup of coffee. Despite their familiar name, however, coffee beans aren’t actually beans at all. They’re seeds found inside the fruit of the coffee plant, commonly called a coffee cherry. Before roasting, these seeds are known as green coffee beans. Their … Read more

Green coffee beans are the raw, unroasted seeds found inside coffee cherries. Before roasting transforms them into the brown, aromatic beans most of us recognize, they look pale green or beige and have a very different aroma and flavor. Although they’re called “beans,” they are actually seeds. Green coffee is the starting material used by … Read more