I love fresh coffee and there’s nothing fresher than when you do it yourself. It cuts out all of the middle men and waiting for other people. Learning to roast Green Coffee Beans is a valuable skill to have since almost everywhere you go people drink coffee. It also is a great conversation starter.
Why Roast Green Coffee Beans
Roasting green coffee beans is a rewarding activity for coffee lovers. It seems like a lot of work, considering that roasted coffee is already available in the market. Nevertheless, the process is quick, simple, and makes the freshest coffee.
Roasting your own green coffee beans takes less than 15 minutes. You do not need fancy equipment to do this; in fact, most of the items you need is just found in the kitchen. You can roast coffee from an oven, microwave, heat gun, or commercial roaster.
Green Coffee Beans Roasting Warning
Principally, coffee roasts at 500 degrees Fahrenheit, so you should do this with caution. Roasting coffee also tends to be quite smoky, so be sure to do this in a well-ventilated kitchen.
Roasting Green Coffee Beans needs to be done with caution but is very rewarding.
A recent scientific study with a small study group has found significant health benefits to a coffee mixture made up of green coffee beans and roasted beans. The study revealed two primary benefits for the participants that were both missing from the control group.
Weight Loss and Green Coffee Beans
All of the participants in the study showed a substantial weight loss during the month they were drinking the special mixture containing green coffee beans. The control group showed no weight loss or only minimal weight fluctuation. The participants in the study did stop their weight loss or start to revert in the month following the end of the study.
Green Coffee Beans and DNA Repair
The study reported in Molecular Nutrition and Food Research also showed that those who drank the green coffee bean beverage showed DNA damage reduced by approximately forty percent after just one month on the study. This may not sound important until it is tied to the impact on an individual’s health specifically in regards to diabetes and liver function. A study released by a researcher from Purdue University shows that in the Western Diet coffee is the highest source of phenolics. The studies are all very promising but at this point the size of the study groups and the length of the study are insufficient to show how long term the benefits would last and if there are any long term side effects that may out weigh the benefits. All of those involved are committed to further research and coffee specifically green coffee beans may be the hope of our societies health.
Blue Mountain Coffee of Jamaica has exported seventy tons of Blue Mountain Coffee’s green coffee beans for the first time ever. For anyone who has been following the westernization of China for the last several decades there is no surprise that a radical increase in the consumption of coffee follows the increase of many other items and lifestyle choices have been imported from the United States and Western Europe. China has started to import significant amounts of petroleum products driving up the cost of goods for everyone in the world. They have also for the first time in history begun to import more rice than they produce which in 2007 started inflating the price of rice which has been a staple for fighting world hunger and substantially impacted the budget of many world hunger organizations.
Green Coffee Beans and the Growing Coffee Business in China
Although there is an attraction to items from the western world, frequently the items are modified to fit with Chinese taste and culture. I am sure that the Chinese business men who are importing the coffee will find a better way to infiltrate the Chinese culture of drinking tea than has Starbucks and other outside companies from the western world. The long term picture is that no matter how much you are paying for your coffee now it is sure to increase the price at a steady rate over the next several years as China will become the world’s number one consumer of coffee beans.
Some of you may be asking what in the world are green coffee beans. If you have only ever had folgers or generic coffee grounds that come in a five pound can you might be shocked to hear that your coffee comes from something that sounds like a vegetable. How does my beautiful brown toasty coffee grounds come from something that’s a green bean. Coffee grows on small trees or bushes in pods with seeds. The seeds are what make the green coffee beans. The seeds are removed from the pod and washed and cleaned. Then the green coffee beans are sold to various buyers based on the quality of the green coffee beans they demand different prices. Then the beans are shipped to various locations around the world. The large distributors roast and package the lowest grade beans in bulk and package it as folgers or something that is bought in the grocery. The medium grade green coffee beans are bought and roasted in smaller batches so that there is less time between roasting and brewing. These are places like Starbucks and Caribou. Then there are the high end green coffee beans that are bought by the specialty coffee shops and are roasted for your order and shipped the same day so that within 60 hours of roasting you are drinking the coffee.
Why Green Coffee Beans
Roasted Green Coffee beans start to lose their flavor the second they cool off and even the best system for sealing in the flavor won’t stop them from leaking out the best of the flavor. So if you want to experience the best in an ultimate cup of coffee you need to find a place that roasts their green coffee beans on site and drink a truly freshly roasted and brewed cup of coffee.
Roasting Coffee Beans
If you are the ultimate coffee connoisseur you may want to invest in the equipment so that you can roast your own green coffee beans. It used to be only a handful of roasting machines and some of them were dangerous. Now there are countertop coffee roasting machines that will roast and brew the coffee with little of your input.
