Arabica coffee is a type of coffee plant (the scientific name is coffea arabica). In fact, 60% of the sweet, fragrant coffee we drink comes from the fruit of the arabica plant; the remaining 40% of ...
Researchers have traced the origins of arabica coffee, the world's most popular type. Using genes from coffee plants around the world, they found that it dates back to approximately 600,000 years ago.
In the early 1900s on the Southeast Asian island of Timor, a rare and fortuitous mistake occurred. Two different species of coffee plant — a sweet and aromatic yet fragile arabica plant, and a harsher ...
New Scientist: Every Arabica coffee plant may come from a single common ancestor
Arabica coffee is the most economically important coffee globally and accounts for 60% of coffee products worldwide. But the plants it hails from are vulnerable to a disease that, in the 1800s, ...
Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted, ground coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content, but decaffeinated coffee is also commercially available. There are also various coffee substitutes. Coffee production begins when the seeds from coffee cherries (the Coffea plant's fruits) are separated to ...
History of coffee, the discovery and spread of coffee as a stimulating beverage. Wild coffee plants are thought to have been native to an Ethiopian plateau region known as Kefa (Kaffa), though the exact history of their origin and domestication remains unclear. Learn more about the history of coffee.
What is coffee made of? Learn about the coffee tree, its lifespan, how it produces coffee beans, and the two most common coffee species, arabica and robusta.