Coffee Beans 101 » coffee berries http://coffee-beans-101.com Your online guide to coffee and coffee beans Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:48:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Is the Coffee Bean a Fruit or Legume? http://coffee-beans-101.com/featured/is-the-coffee-bean-a-fruit-or-legume/ http://coffee-beans-101.com/featured/is-the-coffee-bean-a-fruit-or-legume/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:34:07 +0000 Jennifer http://coffee-beans-101.com/?p=21 Structure of coffee berry and beans: 1: center cut 2:bean (endosperm) 3: silver skin (testa, epidermis), 4: parchment (hull, endocarp) 5: pectin layer 6: pulp (mesocarp) 7: outer skin (pericarp, exocarp) Source: Wikipedia, GNU licenseIs 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. [...]]]> 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.

The coffee “bean” is actually the seed of the coffee plant, the pit inside of the coffee fruit (AKA coffee berries and coffee cherries).

 

Structure of coffee berry and beans: 1: center cut 2:bean (endosperm) 3: silver skin (testa, epidermis), 4: parchment (hull, endocarp) 5: pectin layer 6: pulp (mesocarp) 7: outer skin (pericarp, exocarp) Source: Wikipedia, GNU license

Structure of coffee berry and beans: 1: center cut 2:bean (endosperm) 3: silver skin (testa, epidermis), 4: parchment (hull, endocarp) 5: pectin layer 6: pulp (mesocarp) 7: outer skin (pericarp, exocarp) Source: Wikipedia, GNU license

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