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  Gourmet coffee shop — Arabica .com
Coffee is the seed of a berry from a tree, which grows in a narrow sub-tropical belt.
Arabica represents approximately 70 percent of the world's coffee production.
The story of tea began about 5,000 years ago in ancient China.
www.arabica.com   (220 words)

  
  Allann Bros Coffee - Coffee Education: Arabica Coffee
The Arabica genus of coffee bean is a superior coffee bean when compared to the Robusta coffee bean, and it is the type of coffee that Allann Bros Coffee uses exclusively.
Arabica coffee beans have many different "origins" or "varietals" that are each named for their growing region, such as Colombian or Ethiopian.
Green Arabica varietals classified as EP means that there is only a maximum of 8 imperfections per 300 grams of green coffee beans.
www.allannbroscoffee.com /education/ArabicaCoffee.cfm   (348 words)

  
 Caribbean Gold Coffee of St. John, USVI, uses only the finest washed Arabica beans
Arabicas are delicate and require a higher, cooler, climate with plenty of moisture and a rich soil.
The Arabica coffee beans have a wider taste range, from sweet to tangy and before they are roasted they smell somewhat fruity and sugary.
Arabica coffee beans are harvested during the dry season, 9 months after blossoming while the berries are cherry red, glossy, and firm.
www.caribbeangoldcoffee.com /coffee/arabica-coffee-beans.htm   (662 words)

  
 Oregon Coffee Roaster
Arabica is from the "coffea arabica" seed and needs extensive nurturing to grow; taking years before the first harvest.
OCR’s arabica coffees are grown on small farms at high altitudes producing a distinctive flavor in each varietal (type of coffee from a region or country).
Arabica coffees are of such high quality they require careful hand picking every day during the season.
oregoncoffee.com /arabica.htm   (243 words)

  
 Coffee: All Ground Up! - Science - Plant - Arabica
The ideal environment for Arabica is an elevation between 500 and 2,000 meters with an average temperature of 22 Celsius.
Arabica does very well in the forests of Central and South America.
Arabica is more susceptible to disease and insect damage than Robusta coffee.
library.thinkquest.org /04oct/01639/en/science/plant/arabica/index.html   (233 words)

  
 What is Arabica Coffee
Arabica coffee refers to coffee made with coffea arabica, a type of coffee plant that accounts for 75-80% of the world's coffee production.
One scenario that is conducive to Arabica coffee growth is one in the subtropical regions at a high altitude between 1800 and 3600 range.
By the time Arabica coffee beans have made it to the store where coffee lovers are able to purchase it, they have undergone a vigorous process that makes it the best tasting of all of the different coffee types.
www.coffeeserviceplus.com /arabica-coffee.html   (629 words)

  
 PODhead.com Arabica Assortment of Espresso Coffee Pods
The finest South American variety of Arabica is grown in Brazil, the worlds' most powerful coffee producer.
This particular variety of Arabica is grown in Kenya, on 2000 meter high plateaus.
This extraordinary quality of Arabica originating from the Jamaican Blue Mountains, to which in fact it owes its name, was planted in 1725 by Sir Nicholas Lowes, governor of Jamaica, in the estate of his property.
www.podhead.com /arabica_assortement.html   (379 words)

  
 Arabica Coffee
Hence the name Arabica, however, scientific evidence indicates that coffee first grew in Kaffa, what is now Ethiopia, in Northeastern Africa and was transported shortly afterwards across the mouth of the Red Sea to Yemen.
Arabica coffee accounts for about 80% of all coffee produced in the world.
More importantly, the sub-species of Arabica coffee have been bred to adapt to a specific growing region to be resistant to certain afflictions such as fungus, parasites, insects etc… that differ from region to region.
www.websition.com /articles/531/1/Arabica-Coffee   (485 words)

  
 Compagnia dell'Arabica Espresso: Espresso Pods from PodMerchant
Arabica is the most known and widespread variety of coffee.
Of all the different coffees in the world, Arabica is undoubtedly the finest and most appreciated.
This coffee comes exclusively from certified and controlled plantations, in which smallholders have been growing their coffee in a natural way and without the aid of chemical fertilisers for generations.
www.podmerchant.com /espresso-pods/compagnia-dell-arabica.html   (1116 words)

  
 Gourmet Coffee Bean - Arabica Coffee Beans
Arabica coffee is the only coffee that is to be drunk and enjoyed without being blended with other types of beans.
Arabica coffee beans are the most expensive variety and are considered the premium and best tasting coffees of the world.
The cost to produce robusta is much lower than Arabica beans and many of the major coffee roasters use this to blend it in with the higher quality Arabica coffee beans to increase their profitability.
www.volcanicacoffee.com /coffee-articles/gourmet-coffee-bean.htm   (584 words)

  
 Arabica coffee manual for Lao PDR
Arabica coffee has been planted in recent years in a number of the northern provinces of Lao PDR, but to date the relatively small volume of coffee beans produced has not encouraged processing and marketing.
Arabica is used in the roast and ground coffee market and is added to blends of Robusta to improve the quality of instant coffee.
Robusta is normally grown in warmer areas at lower elevations unsuited to Arabica, and is considered resistant/tolerant to coffee rust.
www.fao.org /docrep/008/ae939e/ae939e03.htm   (2767 words)

  
 Punch Special Reserve Coffee - Why Does Punch Choose Arabica Beans?
There are over twenty species of coffee plant but only two species account for the majority of coffee sold worldwide: arabica and robusta.
Arabica and robusta coffee beans is a story about quantity vs. quality.
By contrast, Arabica coffee beans are the world's most flavourful beans and Blue Mountain styled Arabica coffee is considered by experts as the king of coffees when it comes to flavour.
www.punchcoffee.com /about_punch_arabica.php   (216 words)

  
 International Coffee Organization - Botanical Aspects
Arabica coffee is often susceptible to attack by pests and diseases, therefore resistance is a major goal of plant breeding programmes.
Arabica coffee is grown throughout Latin America, in Central and East Africa, in India and to some extent in Indonesia.
Crosses between arabica and robusta aim to improve arabica by confering disease resistance and vigour or to improve on the cup quality of robusta.
www.ico.org /botanical.asp   (991 words)

  
 Robusta vs. Arabica
Arabica beans produce a superior taste in the cup, being more flavorful and complex than their Robusta counterparts.
Varieties of Arabica beans are grown all over the world and the different flavor characteristics produced by each growing region are distinctive.
It is these varietal characteristics of the Arabica bean that makes it such a sought after product and many of the finer small roasters cup (that is, roast and taste) batches of coffee before purchasing it.
kaffee.netfirms.com /Coffee/robustavsarabica.html   (897 words)

  
 Zach & Dani's - Arabica vs. Robusta
Arabica coffee beans also contain only half the caffeine of robusta, which means you can enjoy more cups throughout the day without getting the jitters.
Up until the mid 1800s, arabica coffee beans were the primary choice of beans.
Arabica plants thrive in nutrient-rich soil along the equator at elevations between 3,000 and 6,000 feet.
www.coffeeroasting.com /learn-knowledge-avr.html   (622 words)

  
 Australian Coffee Story - Arabicas Coffee Australia
Almost all of the "A grade" Arabica coffee grown worldwide is wet processed and is termed "Washed" Arabica bean.
Dry processed coffee is termed "Natural" or "Unwashed" Arabica green bean.Dry processing is not the preferred method for mechanically harvested coffee because there is no way of separating the red, green and fl cherries.
High grown Arabica coffee of the quality we select commands premium prices and are only sought after by a small and very particular group of roasters.
www.arabicas.com.au /story.html   (893 words)

  
 100% Arabica Espresso Pods: Espresso Pods from PodMerchant
Arabicas are coffee beans of the species Coffea Arabica, indigenous to Ethiopia.
Arabica beans from differing locations are blended to produce a balanced and consistent coffee.
Mixture coming from Arabica coffee from South America, Asia and a small percentage from the central Africa.
www.podmerchant.com /espresso-pods/arabica.html   (1200 words)

  
 Arabica coffee manual for Myanmar
This coffee project assessed a wide range of Myanmar Arabica coffee and had a range of well-processed coffee samples from Myanmar sent to international buyers for tasting and evaluation.
Arabica tends to be produced in the uplands in the north while Robusta is predominantly produced in the lowland southern areas.
In 2004/05, 373.6 tons of coffee was exported as green bean by eight different exporters in eleven shipments ranging from 1.2 to 54 tons (24.2 tons of Arabica and 349.4 tons of Robusta).
www.fao.org /docrep/008/ae938e/ae938e0d.htm   (1704 words)

  
 Coffee Information: Arabica Coffee Beans vs. Robusta Coffee
Arabica’s greater complexity derives from its 44 chromosomes – twice the number of Robusta.
An Arabica bean is flatter and more elongated; in addition, and the furrow on its flat surface is elongated.
Arabica is the more expensive of the two, another factor in why Robusta is sometimes used in blends.
www.wholelattelove.com /articles/arabica_coffee.cfm   (225 words)

  
 Coffea arabica
Arabica coffee, Arabian coffee, Abyssinian coffee, Brazilian coffee
Reported from the African Center of Diversity, Arabica coffee, or cvs thereof, is reported to tolerate disease, high pH, insects, laterite, low pH, Photoperiods, shade, slope, and virus (Duke, 1978).
Arabica coffee thrives from the humid tropics to temperate climates from 5°N lat.
www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/duke_energy/Coffea_arabica.html   (2612 words)

  
 Arabica - an XML parser toolkit written in C++
Arabica is an XML parser toolkit, providing SAX2, DOM and XPath implementations, written in Standard C++.
Arabica is a full SAX2 implementation, including the optional interfaces and helper classes.
Arabica is written in Standard C++ and should be portable to most platforms.
www.jezuk.co.uk /cgi-bin/view/arabica   (685 words)

  
 Is Arabica Bean Coffee Unhealthy?
The two compounds at issue in Arabica bean coffee are Kahweol and cafestol.
Kahweol appears to elevate liver enzymes, and it is present primarily in Arabica bean coffee.
Cafestol causes a rise in bad cholesterol, and is found in both Arabica and Robusta beans, although Arabica bean coffee has a much higher concentration of the substance.
www.wisegeek.com /is-arabica-bean-coffee-unhealthy.htm   (436 words)

  
 Arabica, The Coffee Lover's Choice (INeedCoffee.com)
That means that 90% of arabica beans are not considered good enough for specialty coffee.
So, when you buy high quality arabica beans from a specialty coffee roaster, you are getting the best of the best beans.
Arabica beans are what makes coffee taste great.
www.ineedcoffee.com /01/02/arabica   (532 words)

  
 About Arabica Coffee Co.
Founded in 1992 Arabica Coffee Co, is continually evolving and growing with the basis of providing the finest cup of coffee for your customers.
In 1995 Arabica Coffee Co. directed its focus in importing and roasting the finest green coffee in house which ultimately yielded the highly-regarded blends that we offer today.
Arabica's Management Team (from left to right, Takis Hasalevris, George Leles and Steven Leles) vigerously inspect each roast and continually work to enhance their fine products.
www.arabicacoffeeco.com /AboutUs.htm   (342 words)

  
 Arabica vs Robusta: No Contest (INeedCoffee.com)
Arabica (Coffea arabica), named for the Arabs, is the better and more expensive of the two.
Because ripe Arabica cherries (unroasted beans) fall to the ground and spoil, they must be carefully monitored and picked at intervals, which increases production costs.
In fairness, although most robusta coffee is of a lower grade and inferior to Arabica, there is a premium crop that is the top of the line for robusta beans.
www.ineedcoffee.com /02/06/arabica   (561 words)

  
 Arabica Coffee, Arabica Coffee Bean, Arabica Coffee Shop - DiakoCoffee
Africa produces the finest arabica coffees, but even among coffee devotees - at least in America - they remain relatively unknown and undrunk.
Our arabica green beans are imported from Africa, slow roasted in Virginia, USA and shipped directly to you.
The percentage of Arabica in your coffee is the most important.
www.diakocoffee.com /site/848510   (402 words)

  
 VietNamNet - Arabica coffee project a fantastic hope
This is an ambitious project that aims to develop the Arabica coffee plantation area in 15 northern mountainous provinces, allowing Vietnam to export Arabica coffee to the world.
The 2005-2006 crop provided 18,000 tonnes of Arabica, and 11,000 tonnes were exported, down by 1,000 tonnes in comparison with the previous crop.
Arabica prices are always 1.5-2 times higher than Robusta in the international market, and Arabica has never seen overproduction as Robusta has.
english.vietnamnet.vn /biz/2006/12/643577   (636 words)

  
 Tropical Arabica Coffees from Jetsetters Magazine at www.jetsettersmagazine.com
A pod is a measured portion of ground coffee or espresso, compressed between two biodegradable filter paper sheets.
Refined through decades of experience is characterized by a rich aroma, a complex layering of flavors, and a sweet full finish.
Only the finest-grade Arabica beans and coffees produced on the volcanic slopes of Kona create this exceptional blend& great for savoring while relaxing alone or sharing with friends.
www.jetsettersmagazine.com /archive/jetezine/gear/tropic/food/coffee/arabica.html   (589 words)

  
 TC Lavazza: Coffee History, Cultivation
The Arabica coffees produced in Brazil take the collective name of Brazilian Coffees; those from Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Guatemala, Salvador, Haiti and Santo Domingo are called Milds.
Because of their higher content of caffeine (about twice as much as Arabica) and strong character, Robustas are used mostly in specialty blends.
This is between 400 grams and two kilos of "arabica" beans for each plant, and 600 grams and two kilos of "robusta" beans: one might say that for 500 grams of beans one will need 2.5 kilos of berries.
sovrana.com /libstory.htm   (2249 words)

  
 Arabica Coffee Beans
Arabica is one of two species of coffee.
The other, Robusta, is much easier to grow but is inferior in flavor, which means it is used only in cheaper, mass-produced blends.
Arabica is indigenous to Ethiopia, but has been cultivated in other lands, particularly southwest Arabia, for more than a millennium.
hairraiser.com /arabica-coffee-beans.html   (256 words)

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