General Information
NameArabica coffee
Scientific NameCoffea arabica
DescriptionCoffea arabica is a species of Coffea originally indigenous to the mountains of the southwestern highlands of Ethiopia. It is also known as the "coffee shrub of Arabia", "mountain coffee" or "arabica coffee". Coffea arabica is believed to be the first species of coffee to be cultivated, being grown in southwest Ethiopia for well over 1,000 years. It is said to produce better tasting coffee than the other major commercially grown coffee species, Coffea canephora (robusta), because robusta cherries contain twice as much caffeine as arabica. Caffeine itself has a bitter taste, making robusta more bitter. C. arabica contains less caffeine than any other commercially cultivated species of coffee.
Primary IDFOOD00059
Picture59
Classification
GroupCoffee and coffee products
Sub-GroupCoffee
Taxonomy
SuperkingdomEukaryota
KingdomViridiplantae
PhylumStreptophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderGentianales
FamilyRubiaceae
GenusCoffea
Speciesarabica
VarietyNot Available
ITIS ID35190
Wikipedia IDArabica_coffee
Composition
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