Decaf Coffee Beans: Caffeine Levels and How It Is Made
Yes. Decaf beans are green coffee beans with most of their caffeine removed before roasting. They still contain some: the FDA says decaf typically has 2 to 15 mg in an …
Coffee Bean Types
Four coffee species make up what is sold commercially: arabica, robusta, liberica and excelsa. Arabica was about 63% of green-bean exports in 2024/25 and robusta most of the rest, while liberica and excelsa together are probably under 1,000 metric tons. Each has its own guide below, alongside pages on decaf, the heat-tolerant wild species stenophylla, and what Fairtrade and organic labels mean.
Coffea Stenophylla vs Arabica: What the Research Shows
Coffea stenophylla is a wild West African coffee species that tastes like high-quality arabica but grows at mean annual temperatures 6.2 to 6.8 °C higher than arabica’s. In a blind tasting, …
Fair Trade vs Organic Coffee: What Each Label Guarantees
Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance and organic are not three grades of one thing. Fairtrade sets a price floor ($1.80 a pound for washed arabica, $2.00 on contracts signed from 1 December …
Liberica Coffee Beans: Barako, Origin and Why It Is Rare
Liberica is Coffea liberica, a species native to upper West Africa and grown today mainly in Southeast Asia, notably the Philippines (where it is called barako), Malaysia and Indonesia. It …
Excelsa Coffee: Coffea dewevrei, Origins and Flavor
Excelsa is a coffee species, Coffea dewevrei, native to Central Africa and now farmed in Uganda, South Sudan, India and parts of Southeast Asia. It was long treated as a …
Robusta Coffee Beans: Coffea canephora, Explained
Robusta is the trade name for coffee from the species Coffea canephora. It carries more caffeine than arabica, grows lower and hotter, and made up 36.6% of world green-coffee exports …
Arabica Coffee Beans: Varieties, Flavor and Origins
Coffea arabica is the species behind most of the coffee people drink and nearly all of the coffee sold as specialty. It is native to Ethiopia and reached most of …
