Two Coffee Questions?!
Coffee Cherries turn bright red when when ripe. The flesh is sweet with grape-like texture. Juan Valdez may average
100 to 200 lbs of cherry each day. Each cherry usually has
two seeds but 5 to 15% of crop have but one; its called peaberry, taste is stronger, and such seed commands a higher value. Seed when roasted becomes the coffee bean. First question is: How many beans are required to make a pound of coffee?
Second question: Has reader eaten the Coffee Cherry?
Answers: The coffee tree is a 20' evergreen pruned to 8 or 10 feet from which pickers with ladders and buckets scale to collect fruit.
Coffee Cherries turn bright red when when ripe. The flesh is sweet with grape-like texture. Juan Valdez may average
100 to 200 lbs of cherry each day. Each cherry usually has
two seeds but 5 to 15% of crop have but one; its called peaberry, taste is stronger, and such seed commands a higher value. Seed when roasted becomes the coffee bean. First question is: How many beans are required to make a pound of coffee?
Second question: Has reader eaten the Coffee Cherry?
coffee is bad for your health really.