Tag: Bean

Mucilage – Mucus: Coffee kernels are covered with a layer of mucus (also known as pulp or pulp - in Spanish), about 0.4 mm thick with a central composition including water, polysaccharide, sugar, protein, lipids, minerals, and acids (Avallone et al., 2000).Although this structure accounts for between 15% and 22% of the weight of ripe fruit, it must be removed during the fermentation stage of the wet processing to obtain the coffee nucleus (see also the weight or coffee fruit structure).Coffee …