Title of article :
Quality assessment of Arabica and Robusta green and roasted coffees – A review
Author/Authors :
Bicho, Natalina Cavaco Institutode Investigação Científica Tropical, I.P. - Centro Ambiente Agricultura e Desenvolvimento (BioTrop) - Grupo Interações Planta-Ambiente (PlantStress), Portugal , Lidon, Fernando Cebola Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus da Caparica - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Departamento de Ciências da Terra, Portugal , Ramalho, José Cochicho Institutode Investigação Científica Tropical, I.P. - Centro Ambiente Agricultura e Desenvolvimento (BioTrop) - Grupo Interações Planta-Ambiente (PlantStress), Portugal , Leitão, Antó nio Eduardo Institutode Investigação Científica Tropical, I.P. - Centro Ambiente Agricultura e Desenvolvimento (BioTrop) - Grupo Interações Planta-Ambiente (PlantStress), Portugal
Abstract :
This review is a synopsis on coffee quality assessment of green and roasted coffee beans of Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora. The particle size, medium sieve, most frequent sieve, share split, cumulative calibration, trade homogeneity, mass of 1000 beans, apparent density, strange bodies and defects, mass losses on drying, olfactory and visual parameters, chromatic parameters, soluble solids, pH and chemical characterization (chlorogenic acids, caffeine and trigonelline) is described and evaluated, considering the most important factor associated to the coffee trade, according to a technological perspective.
Keywords :
Arabica coffee , Green coffee , Quality , Roasted coffee , Robusta coffee
Journal title :
Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture
Journal title :
Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture
