Coffee bean

High school (ages 12+)
Food & Cooking

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/coffee-bean

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is a coffee bean?It's the seed inside a coffee cherry, not a true bean. Seeds are inside the fruit. They grow into coffee plants.
2. Why do some coffee cherries have only one seed?Those are called peaberries, a natural mutation. They are about 10-15% of harvests and can taste stronger.

Coffea: The genus of flowering plants that produce coffee beans, native to tropical Africa.
Drupe: A fleshy fruit with a hard, stony layer (endocarp) surrounding the seed, like a cherry or peach.
Endosperm: Nutritive tissue within a seed that nourishes the developing embryo, forming the bulk of the coffee bean.
Maillard Reaction: A complex chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars that gives browned foods their distinctive flavor and color.