Organic Coffee: Drinking to Health and Environment too!
Almost everyone loves coffee. Whatever form it comes, or whatever you dilute or decorate it with, dressed down or dressed up, it’s still the same old coffee that gives you that zing to kick start your day. But, is it safe?
Many people especially those who are concerned with health and the environment would like farming practices to be organic including the farming methods to produce that brewed delicious drink. Coffee aficionados, health buffs and environmentalists alike agree that organic grown coffee beans are the best.
Organic coffee bean is a product of sustainable farming methods that protects and promotes the precious natural ecology of the environment. It is propagated without the use of synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides or any pesticides. This method preserves the fertility of the soil, does not contaminate streams, river and lakes destroying flora and fauna and create pest resistance, and is bird friendly.
Fertilizers used in the cultivation of organic coffee trees are usually from decomposed organic materials that further enriches the soil. Protecting the organic coffee bean from pests, farmers select coffee species that are best adapted for the climate or may utilize insect predators, traps, barriers or mating disruption of pests. Usually, to enhance and maintain the flavor, coffee trees are grown in the shade protected by other indigenous trees and plants.
Most significantly, this organic technique does not contaminate the coffee beans with pesticides that are toxic to the body. Studies have shown that eating pesticide laden food may be carcinogenic, cause congenital birth defects, and a host of other diseases. Also, to prepare the organic coffee beans for consumption, processing is minimal thus preserving its aroma; neither are artificial ingredients or harmful preservatives added. To create decaffeinated coffee, no harmful chemicals are added to extract the caffeine but to maintain its status as organic, water and a special method is used to decaffeinate the coffee beans. Roasting the beans to reach its full flavor is usually done through a rotating drum until the beans turn from greenish to yellowish and finally to its trademark brownish black color.
Luckily, many countries in the world raise organic coffee bean trees to supply worldwide demand for this caffeinated beverage. According to the Organic Trade Association of the United States the top three countries that grow organic coffee are Peru, Ethiopia, and Mexico and at least 40 more countries produce the crop.
There are many brands of organic coffee in the market including gourmet coffee beans. It is customary for gourmet coffee beans to be stored after harvest from the farm. They are only roasted and grounded when customers phone in their orders to make it sure that upon delivery it excites the consumer with their rich flavorful fragrance. Other gourmet coffee beans may be decaffeinated, manufactured into instant coffee with added varied flavors, made into ice cream and coffee sodas, candies, added to chocolate to become mocha and other innovative and enterprising concoction.
Coffee overflows with antioxidants and caffeine. Organic coffee has all these properties but without the dangerous chemicals from pesticides. So now it is good to know that you can drink that organic gourmet coffee to your health and to the environment too!
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