name: Arabica Coffee

flavor_db_name_variants: arabica coffee

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Arabica coffee

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name_scientific: Coffea arabica

description: Coffea arabica is a species of Coffea originally indigenous to the mountains of the southwestern highlands of Ethiopia. It is also known as the "coffee shrub of Arabia", "mountain coffee" or "arabica coffee". Coffea arabica is believed to be the first species of coffee to be cultivated, being grown in southwest Ethiopia for well over 1,000 years. It is said to produce better tasting coffee than the other major commercially grown coffee species, Coffea canephora (robusta), because robusta cherries contain twice as much caffeine as arabica. Caffeine itself has a bitter taste, making robusta more bitter. C. arabica contains less caffeine than any other commercially cultivated species of coffee.

itis_id: 35190

wikipedia_id: Arabica_coffee

picture_file_name: 59.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 114786

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:39:17.000Z

legacy_id: 63

food_group: Coffee and coffee products

food_subgroup: Coffee

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:18.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:15.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 13443

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00059