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Cappuccino

Cappuccino, noun: Italian word indicating an espresso with some milk and a fine milk froth. The name refers to the brown-white habit of the Capuchin monks.

Carbohydrate

Carbohydrate, noun: An ingredient in coffee. Together with fat and protein, they are an essential component of our diet. They are a product of photosynthesis in plants. They constitute 30-40%

Casuarina

Casuarina, noun: A species of beech that grows in forests whose branches resemble horsetails. They are used as shade trees in coffee gardens in Papua New Guinea.

Chlorogenic acid

Chlorogenic acid, noun: An ingredient in coffee. Also occurs in potatoes, artichokes, nettles, etc. It is regarded as hard on the stomach. In our slow, gentle roasting process from 10-15

Coca

Coca, noun: A bush/shrub. It grows on the eastern hillsides of the Andes in Peru, Bolivia and Columbia between 1000 and 6500 feet above sea level. It is the raw

Coffee

Coffee, noun: From the Arabic “qahwah,” meaning stimulating drink. It is a (usually) hot, black caffeinated drink made from roasted and ground coffee beans, the seeds from the coffee berry.

Coffee bean

Coffee bean, noun: Coffee beans are not actually beans, but rather the (half) seeds (kernels) of the coffee berry, the fruit of the coffee plant.

Coffee berry

Coffee berry, noun: Fruit of the evergreen coffee plant (can grow up to 60 feet high, pruned down to a maximum of 10 feet). They ripen on our Arabicas up

Coffee classification

Coffee classification, noun: The classification of green coffees according to different grades. PB (peaberry) is the best, followed by AA plus-plus, AA plus, AA, AB, etc.

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