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3. First transformation
Once harvested, the coffee cherries undergo a whole series of transformations to arrive at the coffee-beverage cup. These various stages require equipment of varying degrees of sophistication. But, whatever the tools used, we must never lose sight of the fact that the important thing is the product and its evolution. This is what we will try to show in the following paragraphs .
The coffee cherry, the fruit of the coffee plant, is made up of a skin (exocarp), a mucilaginous pulp (mesocarp), more or less abundant depending on the species, and a pit formed by two seeds with their flat sides facing each other (endosperm)....
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- (1) - International coffee Organization - Monthly Coffee Market Report, - janv. 2020 http://www.ico.org/Market-Report
- (2) - GUYOT (B.), PENTGA (E.)., VINCENT...
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