Arabica Coffee Beans Or Robusta – Which Beans Are The Best?

Arabica Coffee Beans Or Robusta – Which Beans Are The Best?

By: coffeealera

As the names suggest, you must already be thinking in the right direction. Arabica coffee beans hold so much more flavor than Robusta’s as the name itself sounds so much more inviting than Robusta’s.

Robusta coffee (or Coffea Canephora) beans are hardier than their Arabica cousins. And being of the hardier variety, Robusta beans can be grown at a lower altitude than Arabica. This means lower production costs, but does however, significantly increase the amount produced.

Robusta’s have a strong and bitter taste, but in turn have a higher, almost double, caffeine content than Arabica’s, which limits their use (Robusta’s) to instant coffee blends and ‘fillers’ for Arabica coffee blends. This use of Robusta’s in instant coffee’s keeps the price low, hence the reason it is far more common in households, particularly in United Kingdom.

And if chicory is mentioned anywhere on your coffee jar, you can usually bet that it is a blend of Robusta’s. Producers use chicory because the spicy flavor will mask the bitter taste of this inferior blend of coffee. There is a huge market for this cheaper coffee. Europeans, the Middle East and some Asian countries are among the lovers of this high caffeine content coffee, leaving the superior Arabica blends to coffee aficionados.

You will find Arabica coffee beans, as you would expect, being grown in exotic places like Hawaii and Jamaica, as well as Tanzania, Ethiopia and Kenya. Whereas Robusta’s are grown in the west of Africa and in Central Arica, whilst some plantations can also be found in Brazil.

I’m not knocking the Robusta’s. I drink both instant coffee and coffee made from freshly roasted beans, but I do only use instant when I’m stuck for time or if I’m about to head out for the day and so there’s no point making a fresh ‘machine’ full of the black drinking gold!

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