What is roasted coffee?
Green coffee beans need to be roasted and ground prior to brewing. In a process as common as cooking, the raw green coffee beans are heated until they turn brown. This process converts the starch of the green coffee bean into sugars, and then into brown sugars. The unpalatable and physically tough green coffee bean becomes sweet and aromatic during roasting as it puffs up to more than double its former size. The roasted whole bean coffee is then easily ground into numerous particles to enhance the brewing process. Ground coffee is measured by weight, then steeped or brewed with hot water to make the desirable beverage “coffee.
