You may know about which coffee beans taste best and maybe even about roasting and grinding beans, but here are ten coffee beans facts, some of which you may have never heard before! Making the Grade – Coffee beans are graded in various ways.  Columbian beans are graded from highest to lowest as: ”Supremo” “Excelso”, “Extra” [...]

Is the coffee bean a fruit or a legume? Answer: it is a pit inside the coffee fruit. The coffee bean is not technically a legume, because a legume is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or a fruit of these plants, and the coffee plant is not a member of the Fabaceae family. [...]