What Is Whole Bean Coffee?
Coffee goes through several phases of production before reaching the consumer. Whole bean coffee is best defined as coffee that has gone through every stage of production except grinding. Stages of production include picking, sorting, deseeding, fermenting, drying, and roasting. Generally, coffee originates from the seeds found in the tropical coffee plant’s berries. The first stage of coffee production involves sorting the berries to eliminate unripe or undersized berries. Next, machines deseed the berries, ferment the seeds, and rinse the seeds thoroughly. The seeds, or coffee beans, are then set out to dry before entering the roasting phase. Once the coffee beans have been roasted, they are packaged with an airtight seal and shipped off to the consumer as whole bean coffee.
