Saturday, February 7, 2015

Making Your Own Flavored Coffee Beans

By Beryl Dalton


Coffee is good for you. For many people, it is the single largest source of antioxidants in the diet. Drinking a cup of coffee every morning may be part of your daily routine. According to studies, drinking a cup every morning can deliver heart healthy benefits. In addition to that, drinkers may also lowered the risk of developing diabetes and cancers. With all this research, brew drinking is a great way to stay wise and healthy.

Actually, there are various kinds of coffee beans used in the process or brewing. Flavored coffee beans are one of them. They are usually coated or mixed with flavorful compounds to supplement a natural taste of the beans. To go further, most of the flavors help to extend the life span of the coffee and change the flavors because of aging and oxidation process.

In other forms, flavored coffees have been used for many years. With the present technology, there are already products that has been produced with the flavors you want. The type of beans used in making flavored beans usually contain several compounds with great flavors. There are also some products that are added to a certain drink to ensure that it has the taste that could satisfy anyone. These compounds are perfect to be added to the drinks.

Most of the flavors indicate the country of origin of the products with information like the region where the beans were grown and harvested, the grade and type of seeds. Generally, the coffea arabica beans are used to add flavor to the drink due to its low level of acidity and bitterness.

These top quality seeds are more flavorful and milder than the canefora or robusta seeds which are used in various commercial and instant coffees. There are some manufacturers who have created their own flavored coffees from a blend of seeds from different regions. High quality seeds are usually grown in Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala and Costa Rica.

The flavoring oils are also mixed with natural flavors and synthetic chemicals produced by many professional chemists. These natural oils are brewed and extracted from sources like berries, nut and even vanilla. Some would also consider the use of Cinnamon in a variety of brewed flavors.

A lot of marketers also found that many consumers prefer for brewed flavors. The present technology also uses stable solvents which also leave the beans to last longer and glossy. As advances in the food technology, it means that there are more improvements in the future and can help to identify the compounds through analysis and formulation of structure.

There are also mechanical procedures of sorting or roasting that leads to more efficient production. There are many flavor chemists who will continue the development of the exotic compounds. The good thing is that there are some methods that start to become popular.

If you also want to brew your own brewed tea or drinks at home, instead of buying creamers which are really costly, whether powdered or fluid, you can use a drop of almond, orange, vanilla, hazelnut and other kinds of extracts that you desire to your regular tea.




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