While they do look a lot like beans, coffee “beans” are actually the seed, or pit, of the fruit that grows on coffee trees Coffee trees grow small, bright red fruit called coffee cherries. Why is coffee called a bean? Even though the coffee beans are not technically beans, they are referred to as such … Read more
Many people also mistakenly try to classify coffee beans as nuts, but this is also untrue. Coffee beans are actually the seeds of the coffee plant They are harvested from their mother plant‘s fruit, which is round, red and commonly referred to as a “cherry.” (Sorry folks, they’re not actual cherries.) What is a coffee … Read more
Though dubbed a “bean,” coffee is far from a legume A typical coffee bean is actually one of two pits inside of a ruby red fruit called a coffee cherry. (One exception to this is the rare peaberry, where the coffee cherry produces only one pit.) Is coffee a nut? Many people also mistakenly try … Read more