Nuts and beans about coffee: an intro to Arabica vs Robusta and international species - Food - Life & Style - Ahram Online

Nuts and beans about coffee: an intro to Arabica vs Robusta and international species - Food - Life & Style - Ahram Online

Nuts and beans about coffee: an intro to Arabica vs Robusta and international species

With cafés booming and world-class coffees at our fingertips, in this article a coffee lover breaks down the various types of coffees for Ahram Online

Leonardo Vaquero Otero, with contributions by Dahlia Ferrer, Wednesday 21 Sep 2011

Coffee bean bush, Photo: AFP

Although unemployment affects coffee consumption, making people consume a bit less, it cannot be said that the love of coffee is down. A look around at coffee shops proves that coffee isn't doing badly, despite the recession. In fact, it’s gotten beyond just having your cup of wake-me-up watery caffeine. For the past two years, young Americans say they drank a cup of gourmet coffee within their day, according to the National Coffee Drinking Trends 2011 report.
It begs the question, then, with tendencies shifting towards gourmet and really enjoying the experience: what is a high-grade, gourmet coffee and what’s the difference around the world?

There are four types of coffees: arabica, robusta, liberica and the sublime. Within these four types you can find a host of different species that we will mention later. Of these four types, the first two are the most important:

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Coffee Futures Chart = Cover & Go Long Friday, September 16, 2011 by Layne Hermansen

Arabica coffee futures just reached the technical destination we have been waiting for to cover our shorts.
It has reached the Andrew's Pitchfork Median Line and also the Fibonacci 61.8 % retracement.
There is bullish divergence on the 240 minute chart and the RSI is oversold on this time frame.
There should be a technical rebound from this area.  Initially, look for the 15 minute chart RSI to rise up to 50. If it crosses above that level,  then look for the 30 minute chart RSI to rise up to 50.

Why we love or even hate coffee - Hindustan Times

Why we love or even hate coffee

New Delhi, September 14, 2011

A gene plays a role in influencing how much coffee people drink, according researchers from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR). Dr Enda Byrne from QIMR said that coffee is the most popular beverage in the world and their study has shown there is a small genetic variant in

the population that determines how people react to coffee and therefore explains why some people will consume coffee at higher levels and why others won’t drink it at all.

“Our study found coffee consumption is not only influenced by genes, but caffeine can also affect the expression of genes,” said Dr Byrne. “With caffeine impacting gene expression, we believe that caffeine then influences chemical pathways in the body.
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Rising prices and smaller cups leave a bitter taste for coffee lovers - The National

Rising prices and smaller cups leave a bitter taste for coffee lovers - The National

Sep 7, 2011

Coffee shops across the Emirates are considering increasing prices or changing the size of their cups, as profits continue to be ground down by the rising price of beans globally.

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Think your coffee cup is getting smaller? You are not going mad reports Rory Jones

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"It looks like in the next two quarters there will be a price increase because we cannot suffer these costs increases anymore," said Caner Gursoy, operations manager for Brook Foods, the franchisee for Gloria Jeans in the UAE.
Mr Gursoy said the price of Arabica beans had increased at a rate of about 16 per cent every six months for the past three years and that, reluctantly, some of this increase would now have to be passed on to the consumer.
The price of a basket of different coffee beans has risen 35 per cent in the past year, according to the International Coffee Organisation.
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