Coffee beans, Did you know? Issue 1

The name “coffee bean” comes from the Arabic language: qahwa, meaning “coffee” and bunn, meaning “berry”.

The berry was discovered by a shepherd named Kaldi in Yemen around the 9^th century. Coffee has now become one of the world’s most popular agriculture products. In volume trade, coffee is number two, second only to oil on the world market.

The coffee bean is the seed or pit of a coffee plant.  The pit is the round red cherry or berry fruit of a tropical evergreen shrub.  The tree-shrub grows up to 15 feet in height and its branches grow thick and broad, each coffee branch grows jasmine-scented flowers.

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