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Coffee

Origins, varieties, processing and roasts: the coffee itself.

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What makes one coffee taste different from another?

Species, origin, processing and roast. Arabica is sweeter and brighter, robusta more bitter with about twice the caffeine; washed processing gives clean, acidity-led cups and natural processing fruitier, heavier ones. Arabica made up 52.8% of the world’s coffee in 2025/26, the USDA says.

  1. Arabica Coffee

    Arabica is Coffea arabica, the coffee species native to the forests of Ethiopia and the source of almost all specialty coffee.

  2. Natural Process Coffee

    Natural, or dry-processed, coffee is dried inside the whole cherry.

  3. Robusta Coffee

    Robusta is Coffea canephora, the second of the two main coffee species, native to the lowland forests of west and central Africa.

  4. Washed Process Coffee

    Washed coffee has its fruit removed before it is dried.

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