Leading specialist coffee supplier, Paddy & Scott’s has launched Brew Bags, a revolutionary new product set to change the way the hospitality and retail sector serve coffee. Putting an end to the misery of low-grade hotel room instant coffee and offering a cost-effective, mess-free alternative to cafetières, Paddy & Scott’s new Brew Bags create the […]
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Several areas in the world’s biggest grower of robusta coffee have reaped fruits that have no beans inside or where beans are smaller than usual. The empty cherries are most common in Gia Lai province in the north, which normally provides about 15 percent of Vietnam’s crop, according to Simexco DakLak Ltd., the country’s second-biggest
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We pour about 1.4 billion cups of coffee a day globally, according to the International Coffee Organization, and the Cote d’Ivoire has been one of the world’s largest coffee producers for over half a century. But locals don’t seem to share the world’s enthusiasm for the country’s coffee beans. While traditionally there has not been
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The International Coffee Organization (ICO) says coffee prices rallied significantly in June, as the Brazilian real strengthened against the US dollar and the 2016/17 Brazilian crop entered its potential frost season. The monthly average of the ICO composite indicator price reached a 14-month high of 127.05 cents/lb, up 6 per cent on May, with export
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Scientists at Rio de Janeiro University say they believe that coffee could be fortified with minerals and ‘micronutrients’ in order to improve health. Micronutrient deficiency affects about 2 billion individuals worldwide. Iron deficiency is the most prevalent, reaching around 1.6 billion people in the world. In addition to iron deficiency, data in the literature indicates
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Where Japan led the way on coffee on the 1960s, other countries in the region have since followed. Asia in recent years has seen the fastest regional increase in coffee consumption in the world. Since 2000, coffee consumption in east and southeast Asia – the region covered in a recently-released study by the International Coffee
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Novozymes, which describes itself as a ‘bio-innovation’ company, says an enzyme it has developed can reduce acrylamide levels in coffee by up to 70 per cent without adversely affecting flavour. Acrylamide has been regarded as a potential health risk since 2002 when Swedish researchers discovered that many different starchy foods contain high levels of acrylamide
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