Green coffee. Useful properties. Cooking and roasting

Green coffee beansWe keep hearing about green tea , but what about green coffee ?

Natural appearance of fresh coffee beans - green.

What is Green Coffee?

Recently, due to the increased popularity of green tea, many have wondered - what is green coffee and whether it can also be useful as green tea? There is another aspect to this issue. We do not consider that to buy green coffee and toast it yourself even more accurate and more natural. For example, Brazilians prefer to roast coffee themselves and at the ready, factory, buy rare form of grain, as the taste of coffee depends on the type and duration of roasting.

Green coffee beans

Preparation of green coffee

Green coffee beans to fry as we usually roast peanuts or sunflower seeds - on the hot pan stirring constantly until brown. 5-15 minutes to fry. Roasting time depends purely on your taste and verified in practice, after cooking and tasting the first cup of coffee. If you roasted coffee a little longer - the seeds will be more brown, more fragrant, and they will have more caffeine if fry less - the flavor and caffeine, respectively, will be less.

The cost of green coffee

If the mind - green coffee should be cheaper as it is semi-finished product. But do not be surprised if you come across it in the store at exorbitant prices. Could history repeat itself with cane sugar, which is also a semi-finished product, and sold more expensive branded health benefits. Price of green coffee in Europe is 4-5 dollars a pound (453 grams) and is half the price of roasted coffee, so thrifty Europeans prefer to buy green coffee.

Useful properties of green coffee

Green coffee is very rich in various vitamins and acids. Green coffee oil is very useful and is used in cosmetics and cellulite . After roasting, many of the useful properties are lost. Green coffee, as well as green tea, a strong antioxidant and can be used for weight loss . If you want to use the green coffee beans to maintain harmony, it is necessary to remember that nutritional and other valuable substances of green coffee are lost during prolonged storage, and when exposed to light or heat.

The taste of green coffee beans grassy and astringent, it seems some sour and unpleasant.

Nescafé has found the middle ground between green and roasted coffee with the launch of a new coffee made from a mixture of green coffee beans and roasted beans. He looks like a normal granulated coffee, but according to the manufacturer, it is good for health because it contains polyphenols, in the antioxidants that help protect the body.