coffee cherry
Drupe containing beans
The coffee cherry is the fruit of the coffee plant, a small berry that ripens from green to bright red or yellow.
Each cherry typically contains two seeds—the coffee beans—surrounded by sweet pulp.
The cherries are harvested and processed to extract the beans for roasting.
Workers pick only the ripe coffee cherries by hand.
- cascaraMedicinal tree bark
- pulpSoft wet mass
- fruitEdible plant ovary
- harvestGathering mature crops
- beanEdible legume seed
ripe · red · arabica · robusta · picking · fermentation · processing · mucilage · parchment · sun dried · natural process · drying · sweet · plantation · shade-grown · altitude · origin · farm gate
- coffeeespresso, latte, cappuccino, macchiato, americano
- coffee plantarabica, robusta, trunk, branch, root system
- tropical cropscocoa pods, cacao pods, robusta, criollo, varietal
- stone fruitspeach, plum, apricot, nectarine, peaches
- Kona coffeeKona, volcanic soil
processing stage
coffee cherryroasted coffee
Heat-darkened brewing ingredient
roasted beans · ground coffee · instant coffee · espresso · coffee extract